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Emil Cioran
Romanian
Philosopher
Born:
Apr 8
,
1911
Died:
Jun 20
,
1995
Life
Man
Nothing
Our
Ourselves
You
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Albert Camus
Aristotle
Confucius
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lao Tzu
Plato
Socrates
Sun Tzu
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Emil Cioran
Paradise
Torture
Insomnia
Itself
Place
Convert
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.
Emil Cioran
Life
You
Man
Hatred
Chemistry
Living
Preserves
Hating
Mystery
Dead
Done
Stop
Loving
Resides
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emil Cioran
Others
Ourselves
Would
Vanish
See
Could
Spot
Us
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
Emil Cioran
Prison
Lost
Worse
Someone
Greatest
Befall
Tragedy
Than
Sitting
Much
Sleep
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emil Cioran
Criticism
Others
Ourselves
Must
Misconception
Read
Understand
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emil Cioran
Moving On
Better
Giving
Name
Surrounds
Endure
Moving
Us
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emil Cioran
Hope
Meeting
Worse
Ourselves
Would
Someday
Someone
Off
Than
Did
Human
Human Beings
Interested
Beings
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
Emil Cioran
Nothingness
Release
Catastrophic
Disaster
Most
Without
Capital
Phenomenon
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emil Cioran
You
Yourself
Too Late
Worth
Too
Late
Bother
Since
Always
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emil Cioran
Happiness
Music
Souls
Refuge
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emil Cioran
Conflict
Police
Calling
End
Begin
Truths
Them
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emil Cioran
Intelligence
Only
Ages
Belief
Flourishes
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emil Cioran
Hope
Lie
Live
Believe
Oneself
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Emil Cioran
Future
Time
Man
Matter
Half
Does
Infatuated
Eternity
Who
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
Emil Cioran
World
Saves
Ruling
Without
Hardly
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emil Cioran
You
Pride
Nothing
Revelation
Discover
Belongs
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Emil Cioran
God
Nowadays
No-One
Because
Cured
Disease
Dies
Imagine
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emil Cioran
Needs
Freedom
Overcome
Mind
Negative
Long
First
Negation
Our
Once
Ourselves
Only
Habit
Exert
Fruitful
Acquired
Us
Adapt
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
Emil Cioran
Life
My Life
Power
Lost
Saw
Philosophy
More
Bearable
Had
Thus
Make
Belief
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emil Cioran
Everything
Indifference
Except
Pathology
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emil Cioran
Time
Echo
Itself
Apart
Us
Tearing
Ennui
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emil Cioran
Scorned
Fame
Than
Forgotten
Want
Dying
Prefer
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emil Cioran
Death
Everything
Only
Sacrificed
Concern
Die
Even
Desire
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Emil Cioran
Despair
Define
Out
Must
Facade
Give
Only
Void
He
Formula
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Emil Cioran
Embittered
Sadism
Souls
Skepticism
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
Emil Cioran
Pure
State
Sperm
Bandit
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