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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.


E. M. Cioran

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EMILE M. CIORAN What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
EMILE M. CIORAN Niciodată nu te voi trăda de tot, deşi te-am trădat şi te voi trăda la fiecare pas; Când te-a...
EMIL M. CIORAN Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinu...
EMIL M. CIORAN In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legat...
EMIL M. CIORAN Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
EMILE M. CIORAN One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
EMILE M. CIORAN S'il n'avait gardé une dernière illusion, je me réclamerais volontiers d'Omar Khayyam, de ses tri...
EMIL M. CIORAN To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without man...
EMIL M. CIORAN Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, havin...
EMIL M. CIORAN Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversõ...
EMIL M. CIORAN Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, excep...
EMIL M. CIORAN My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... ...
EMIL M. CIORAN If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. EMIL M. CIORAN Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demo...
EMIL M. CIORAN I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
EMILE M. CIORAN My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murd...
EMILE M. CIORAN Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
EMILE M. CIORAN Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
EMILE M. CIORAN Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a prăbușit din cauza ideilor.
EMIL M. CIORAN أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أ�...
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
EMIL M. CIORAN