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Emile M. Cioran
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Emile M. Cioran
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
Emile M. Cioran
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Emile M. Cioran
I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a St. Paul.
Emile M. Cioran
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. Cioran
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
Emile M. Cioran
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.