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“Our first intuitions are the true ones.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Intuition #Firsts
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“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#World #Evidence
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“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Religious #Healthy #Mind
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“Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Cynical #Democracy #Mediocrity
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“Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#End Of The World #Melancholy #Ends
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“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Suicide #Ideas
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“A book is a suicide postponed.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Suicide #Book
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“Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Matter #Loser
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“I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Country #Groups #Feels
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“There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Other Worlds #Nihilism #Patents
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“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Born #Plans
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“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Suicide #Succeed #Reason
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“Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Mind #Wish #Position
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“How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Self #Flaws #Easy
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“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Desire #My One And Only #Concern
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“By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Suicide #Aberration #Normal
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“You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Hate #Loving Life #Men
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“I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Enemy #Ends
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“Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Regret #Men #World
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“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Punishment #Age #Old Age
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“In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Revenge #Men #Order
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“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Trying #Granted #Hours
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“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Pride #Revelations
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“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Fear #Inspire #Dread
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“What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Morning #Night #Endure
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“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Being Yourself #Chaos
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“What are you waiting for in order to give up?”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Giving Up #Order #Giving
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“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Disease #Reincarnation #Born
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“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Book #Writing #Dare
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“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”
-- Emile M. Cioran
#Dream #Sleep #Genius
