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Todos los hombres tienen que destruir su vida. Y según la manera como lo hagan se llamarán triunfadores o fracasados.


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EMILE M. CIORAN We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
EMILE M. CIORAN We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
EMILE M. CIORAN We inhabit a language rather than a country.
EMILE M. CIORAN Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you...
EMILE M. CIORAN We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
EMILE M. CIORAN A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more effic...
EMILE M. CIORAN No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
EMILE M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
EMILE M. CIORAN In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
EMILE M. CIORAN For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
EMILE M. CIORAN The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
EMILE M. CIORAN Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
EMILE M. CIORAN A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
EMILE M. CIORAN The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous...
EMILE M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
EMILE M. CIORAN If you try to convert someone, it will never be to
effect his salvation but to make him suffer ...
EMIL M. CIORAN We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
EMIL M. CIORAN It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession ...
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.
EMIL M. CIORAN We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
EMILE M. CIORAN Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
EMILE M. CIORAN Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so...
EMILE M. CIORAN When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN Not to be obliged, like so many others, to choose between the insipid and the atrocious.
EMILE M. CIORAN To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by t...
EMILE M. CIORAN Pursued by our origins... we all are.
EMILE M. CIORAN My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out. I a...
EMIL M. CIORAN Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference an...
EMIL M. CIORAN Les mystiques et leurs «  œuvres  complètes ». Quand on s'adresse à Dieu, et à Dieu seul, co...
EMIL M. CIORAN A book is a suicide postponed.
EMIL M. CIORAN True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire w...
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 If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
EMILE M. CIORAN Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
EMILE M. CIORAN Under each formula lies a corpse.
EMILE M. CIORAN You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: i...
EMILE M. CIORAN Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow me...
EMIL M. CIORAN Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
EMILE M. CIORAN I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
EMILE M. CIORAN Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
EMILE M. CIORAN To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
EMILE M. CIORAN Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, prec...
EMILE M. CIORAN Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
EMILE M. CIORAN Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
EMILE M. CIORAN What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
EMILE 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 Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
EMILE M. CIORAN One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
EMILE 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