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


Emil Cioran

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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.
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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 Word — That invisible dagger.
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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...
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E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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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.
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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.
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E. M. CIORAN Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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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.
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E. M. CIORAN Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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E. M. CIORAN To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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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