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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Born: Apr 8, 1911
Died: Jun 20, 1995
Life Man Nothing Our Ourselves You
Related authors: 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
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emil Cioran
Tyrant Mental Stuff Order Certain Necessary
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emil Cioran
Best Possible Status Intellectual Nationality
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
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. Emil Cioran
Man Live Suicide Characteristic Neither Never Attention Obsession Nor Impossibility Die Double Who Whose
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
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emil Cioran
Proving Than Preferable Means
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emil Cioran
Destroyed Only Civilization Gods
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emil Cioran
Life Memory Imagination Deficiencies Our Possible Only
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emil Cioran
Day Nothing Telegram Shall Read Prayers Foresee
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Emil Cioran
Language Country Other Fatherland Our Does Inhabit
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. Emil Cioran
Silence Conversation Invention Pay Back Must Reveals How Dearly Essentials Middle Us Sudden Suddenly Brings Speech
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
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emil Cioran
Life Decision Futility Must Since Most Exist Irrational Then
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emil Cioran
Criticism Others Ourselves Must Misconception Read Understand
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emil Cioran
Truth Fear Deceived Vulgar Quest Version Being
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
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Emil Cioran
Oppressor Rarely Rises Almost Arms Always Turned Who Rebels Slave
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. Emil Cioran
Nothingness Release Catastrophic Disaster Most Without Capital Phenomenon
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. Emil Cioran
Wound Born Recovers No-One Deadly Disease Being Ever
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. Emil Cioran
Life Live Only Fact Moreover Meaning Reason
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. Emil Cioran
Result Mind Itself Flesh
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
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emil Cioran
Philosophers Write Writers Professors Thinkers
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