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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

«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 .»
«Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.»
«Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.»
«A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.»
«To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.»
«We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.»
«Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.»
«The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.»
«I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations. I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.»
«Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.»

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