Emile M. Cioran quotes

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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
Emile M. Cioran
Reason
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran
Revenge
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran
Life
Decision
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Emile M. Cioran
Skepticism
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Emile M. Cioran
Madness
Man
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Emile M. Cioran
Writers
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. Cioran
Death
Concern
Desire
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran
Idea
Martyr
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran
Lie
Hope
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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Habit
Despair
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
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Society
Disaster
Disease
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Truth
Fear
Being
Quest
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emile M. Cioran
Man
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emile M. Cioran
Attention
Impossibility
Man
Obsession
Suicide
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
Emile M. Cioran
Rest