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There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.


Emile Durkheim

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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 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 My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderer...
EMILE M. CIORAN