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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Emile M. Cioran

Nationality

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Emile M. Cioran

Accident

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

Criticism

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Emile M. Cioran

Tolerance

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Emile M. Cioran

Formula

Lies

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Emile M. Cioran

Despair

Formula

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Emile M. Cioran

Madness

Vitality

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Emile M. Cioran

Words

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Emile M. Cioran

Country

Language

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Emile M. Cioran

God

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

Hope

Meeting