Emil Cioran quotes - page 2

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. (Emil Cioran)
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. View quote
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. View quote
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. View quote
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I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them. View quote
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? View quote
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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. View quote
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. View quote
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The Universal view melts things into a blur. View quote
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One hardly saves a world without ruling it. View quote
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. (Emil Cioran)
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. View quote
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. View quote
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. View quote
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. View quote
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. View quote
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. View quote
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. View quote
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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. View quote
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. View quote
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Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? (Emil Cioran)
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. View quote
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. View quote
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. View quote
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. View quote
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