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Emile M. Cioran
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
Emile M. Cioran
It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?
Emile M. Cioran
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
Emile M. Cioran
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.