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Emile M. Cioran
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Emile M. Cioran
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Emile M. Cioran
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
Emile M. Cioran
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Emile M. Cioran
If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse.