Emil Cioran quotes - page 14

If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there. (Emil Cioran)
Of all that makes us suffer, nothing - so much as disappointment - gives us the sensation of at last touching Truth. View quote
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Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity. View quote
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All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." - I could not, alas, find anything better. View quote
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To suffer is to produce knowledge. View quote
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The skeptic is the least mysterious man in the world, and yet, starting from a certain moment, he no longer belongs to this world. View quote
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No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim. View quote
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The Creation was the first act of sabotage. View quote
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The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order. View quote
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To think that so many have succeeded in dying! View quote
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To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire. (Emil Cioran)
The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two! View quote
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny. View quote
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One disgust, then another - to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive. View quote
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"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection. View quote
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It is unjust to call imaginary the diseases which are, on the contrary, only too real, since they proceed from our mind, the only regulator of our equilibrium and our health. View quote
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This morning I thought, hence lost my bearings, for a good quarter of an hour. View quote
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However intimate we may be with the operations of the mind, we cannot think more than two or three minutes a day; - unless, by taste or by profession, we practice, for hours on end, brutalizing words in order to extract ideas from them. The intellectual represents the major disgrace, the culminating failure of Homo sapiens. View quote
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. View quote
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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. View quote
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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. (Emil Cioran)
Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred. View quote
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Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. View quote
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The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness [...] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it. View quote
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I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions. View quote
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