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Emile M. Cioran
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Emile M. Cioran
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emile M. Cioran
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emile M. Cioran
Each time you find yourself at a turning point, the best thing is to lie down and let hours pass. Resolutions made standing up are worthless: they are dictated either by pride or by fear. Prone, we still know these two scourges, but in a more attenuated, more intemporal form.
Emile M. Cioran
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
Emile M. Cioran
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
Emile M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Emile M. Cioran
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.