Emil Cioran quotes - page 11

What are you waiting for in order to give up? (Emil Cioran)
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. View quote
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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. View quote
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We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. View quote
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We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything. View quote
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant. View quote
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Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough. View quote
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What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself. View quote
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No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. View quote
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? View quote
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. (Emil Cioran)
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary. View quote
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What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music. View quote
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. View quote
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What I know wreaks havoc upon what I want. View quote
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By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. View quote
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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. View quote
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Our first intuitions are the true ones. View quote
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We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death? View quote
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You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again." - "Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again? View quote
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To resign oneself or to blow out one's brains, that is the choice one faces at certain moments. In any case, the only real dignity is that of exclusion. (Emil Cioran)
To live in a saint's heart? I'm afraid of setting the sky ablaze. View quote
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Philosophy's error is to be too endurable. View quote
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Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have. View quote
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Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery. View quote
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