Romanian - Philosopher | April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emil Cioran
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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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