Emil Cioran quotes - page 23

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. (Emil Cioran)
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. View quote
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. View quote
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. View quote
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. View quote
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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. View quote
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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. View quote
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. View quote
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. View quote
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness. View quote
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So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. (Emil Cioran)
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. View quote
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We inhabit a language rather than a country. View quote
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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. View quote
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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. View quote
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Under each formula lies a corpse. View quote
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. View quote
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It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. View quote
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Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. View quote
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Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again. View quote
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. (Emil Cioran)
No one can keep his grieves in their prime they use themselves up. View quote
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. View quote
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The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. View quote
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You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again. View quote
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