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Emile M. Cioran
Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.
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
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emile M. Cioran
So long as man is protected by madness-he functions-and flourishes.
Emile M. Cioran
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Emile M. Cioran
Schisms and heresies are nationalisms in disguise.
Emile M. Cioran
Saints live in flames, wisemen, next to them.
Emile M. Cioran
Russia - immensity and suffocation.
Emile M. Cioran
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.