Emile M. Cioran quotes

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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Emile M. Cioran
Time
Eternity
Future
Man
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran
Giving
Name
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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Present
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Delight
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. Cioran
Power
Hell
Poison
Wonders
Word - that invisible dagger.
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Word
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran
Books
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
Emile M. Cioran
State
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
May
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
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Interest
Misfortune
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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Open
Silence
Speech
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
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Nothing
Pride
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
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Sacrifice
Envy
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran
Ideas
Anxiety
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran
Progress
Injustice