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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.


Emile M. Cioran

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EMIL M. CIORAN Dans les époques de stérilité, on devrait hiberner, dormir jour et nuit pour conserver ses forces...
EMIL M. CIORAN Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
EMIL M. CIORAN By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from...
EMIL M. CIORAN Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow me...
EMIL M. CIORAN Niciodată nu te voi trăda de tot, deşi te-am trădat şi te voi trăda la fiecare pas; Când te-a...
EMIL M. CIORAN Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinu...
EMIL M. CIORAN In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legat...
EMIL M. CIORAN S'il n'avait gardé une dernière illusion, je me réclamerais volontiers d'Omar Khayyam, de ses tri...
EMIL M. CIORAN To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without man...
EMIL M. CIORAN Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, havin...
EMIL M. CIORAN Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversõ...
EMIL M. CIORAN Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, excep...
EMIL M. CIORAN My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... ...
EMIL M. CIORAN If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. EMIL M. CIORAN Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demo...
EMIL M. CIORAN Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a prăbușit din cauza ideilor.
EMIL M. CIORAN أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أ�...
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
EMIL M. CIORAN