Emil Cioran Quotes

Romanian - Philosopher | April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

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ViewBlurThingsUniversal

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

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GoldenImageLeaveGolden RuleRule

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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NaturePresentLeftUsInsectWould

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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JealousyWorshipSecretAversion

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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GodUnderstandEverythingIncomplete

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

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YouDareSayNeverWriteGoing

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

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GreatCutOffBeenWhoseMartyrs

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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TimeMeMissionComfortableTurn

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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MoreConsciousnessThornFleshThan

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

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PlaceParadiseTortureInsomnia

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

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TimeUsEchoTearingApartEnnui

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

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SkepticismSoulsSadismEmbittered

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