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Emil Cioran Quotes

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

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Freedom Enjoy Without Trembling

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Freedom You Illusion Everything Us

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Power Hell Poison Wonders Synthesis

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Order Mental Necessary Stuff Tyrant

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Sweet Revenge Feel Always Victim

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Best Intellectual Possible Status

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Men Accomplishment Need Appetite

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Monster Well Get Just Idea Martyr

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.

Myself Parents Youth Impossible

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

Live Die Born Leaving Bored Point

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Disaster Without Release Nothingness

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Enemy Always Gate Distant Preferable

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