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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

«Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.»
«No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.»
«A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran | Keywords: destroyed
«Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran | Keywords: madman, safer, talks
«One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.»
«The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames? What about those devoured by the flames within them?»
«The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran | Keywords: limit, The Limit
«It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.»
«Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.»
«The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.»

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