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Emile M. Cioran
Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
Emile M. Cioran
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emile M. Cioran
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
Emile M. Cioran
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
Emile M. Cioran
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
Emile M. Cioran
Balkans - that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire the last "primitives" in Europe.
Emile M. Cioran
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
Emile M. Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.