Emile M. Cioran quotes

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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran
Dream
Sleep
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
Emile M. Cioran
Name
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing
World
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
Emile M. Cioran
Being
Chaos
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emile M. Cioran
Consciousness
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran
Fear
Authority
Crime
Glory
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran
Ambition
Potential
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran
Crime
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran
Thought
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emile M. Cioran
Indifference
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Emile M. Cioran
Freedom
Illusion
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
Emile M. Cioran
Glory
Worth
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Emile M. Cioran
God
Disease
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. Cioran
Martyrs
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Emile M. Cioran
Day
Nothing