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


Emil Cioran

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EMIL M. CIORAN We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
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EMIL M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
EMIL M. CIORAN Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
EMIL M. CIORAN Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, prec...
EMIL M. CIORAN By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
EMIL M. CIORAN Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.
EMIL M. CIORAN The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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EMIL M. CIORAN Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
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EMIL M. CIORAN If you try to convert someone, it will never be to
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EMIL M. CIORAN We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
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EMIL M. CIORAN I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall...
EMIL M. CIORAN Word — That invisible dagger.
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EMIL M. CIORAN Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference an...
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EMIL M. CIORAN A book is a suicide postponed.
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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...
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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...
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EMIL M. CIORAN Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves...
EMIL M. CIORAN Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me...
EMIL M. CIORAN Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
EMIL M. CIORAN ثمة راهب وجزار يتشاجران داخل كل رغبة.
EMIL M. CIORAN At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, i...
EMIL M. CIORAN When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You ...
EMIL M. CIORAN En sí misma, toda idea es neutra o debería serlo; pero el hombre la anima, proyecta en ella sus ll...
CIORAN Todos los hombres tienen que destruir su vida. Y según la manera como lo hagan se llamarán triunfa...
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CIORAN You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don&...
EMIL ZATOPEK Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
EMIL NOLDE To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that mea...
EMIL ZATOPEK It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
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EMIL NOLDE O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find cour...
EMIL BRUNNER It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been ...
EMIL BRUNNER This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concern...
EMIL BRUNNER Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Pa...
EMIL BRUNNER Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 T...
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EMIL BROWN I don't know how many we've lost in a row. I'm trying to forget about it.
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EMIL ZATOPEK Men, today we die a little.
EMIL ZATOPEK What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
EMIL ZATOPEK Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
EMIL ZATOPEK Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
EMIL ZATOPEK The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quanti...
EMIL THEODOR KOCHER In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of su...
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GEORGE EMIL PALADE In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reas...
GEORGE EMIL PALADE My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a...
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DR. EMIL POPOVIC For them to have to go back in twice, that's not good.
DR. EMIL POPOVIC Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly...
EMIL THEODOR KOCHER Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic ...
GEORGE EMIL PALADE Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's eq...
EMILE M. CIORAN Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
EMILE M. CIORAN The Universal view melts things into a blur.
EMILE M. CIORAN Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. CIORAN The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
E. M. CIORAN If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
E. M. CIORAN One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and n...
E. M. CIORAN Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people...
E. M. CIORAN A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its se...
E. M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
E. M. CIORAN A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals h...
E. M. CIORAN Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations ...
E. M. CIORAN Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
E. M. CIORAN To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
E. M. CIORAN Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
E. M. CIORAN A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
E. M. CIORAN God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
E. M. CIORAN Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaus...
E. M. CIORAN What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striv...
E. M. CIORAN Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
E. M. CIORAN When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances,...
E. M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
E. M. CIORAN The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte...
E. M. CIORAN Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi...
E. M. CIORAN Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ours...
E. M. CIORAN Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- ...
E. M. CIORAN What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
E. M. CIORAN Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
E. M. CIORAN Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demo...
E. M. CIORAN Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
E. M. CIORAN No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are ...
E. M. CIORAN We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
E. M. CIORAN The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, th...
E. M. CIORAN Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than...
E. M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
E. M. CIORAN Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
E. M. CIORAN To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
E. M. CIORAN No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
E. M. CIORAN The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
E. M. CIORAN Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
E. M. CIORAN We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone wo...
E. M. CIORAN Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
E. M. CIORAN Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with o...
E. M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
EMILE M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal the...
E. M. CIORAN The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
EMILE M. CIORAN The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
E. M. CIORAN Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encount...
E. M. CIORAN A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
EMILE M. CIORAN Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
EMILE M. CIORAN The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte...
EMILE M. CIORAN Our first intuitions are the true ones.
EMILE M. CIORAN Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
EMILE M. CIORAN Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
EMILE M. CIORAN Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
EMILE M. CIORAN Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
EMILE M. CIORAN Word - that invisible dagger.
EMILE M. CIORAN Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
EMILE M. CIORAN The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
EMILE M. CIORAN No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
EMILE M. CIORAN Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
EMILE M. CIORAN Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately consci...
EMILE M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
E. M. CIORAN Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
EMILE M. CIORAN Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
EMILE M. CIORAN Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
EMILE M. CIORAN