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Emile M. Cioran
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emile M. Cioran
Pursued by our origins... we all are.
Emile M. Cioran
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Emile M. Cioran
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
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Emile M. Cioran
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.