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Emile M. Cioran


Romanian
April 8, 1911
Philosopher
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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.


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One hardly saves a world without ruling it.


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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.


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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.


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Tags: Our Store Madness
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.


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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.


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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.


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Tags: Us Around Others
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.


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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.


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Tags: Day Nothing Read
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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Tags: Power Hell Poison
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.


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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.


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Tags: People Much Ideas
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.


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Tags: Life Only Live
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?


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Tags: Time Future Who
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.


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Tags: Life Most Then
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.


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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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Tags: Our Other Country
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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Tags: Man Must Order
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.


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Tags: Who Than Feel
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
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Tags: Future You Feel
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
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Tags: Hope Than Would
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.
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Tags: Because Them Way