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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

«My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.»
«Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.»
«Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.»
«I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.»
«So long as man is protected by madness-he functions-and flourishes.»
«In most cases we attach ourselves to God 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.»
«Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.»
«We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.»
«We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.»
«If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.»

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