Emil Cioran Short Quotes

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

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No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?

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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

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Every form of talent involves a certain shamelessness.

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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

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A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.

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If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!

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To have grazed every form of failure, including success.

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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.

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To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

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The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived.

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Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

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A gifted humanity can only produce skeptics, never saints.

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I dream of wanting - and all I want seems to me worthless.

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"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."

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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.

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In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future.

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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

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What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.

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In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.

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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.

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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

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