“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
E. M. Cioran
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“We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.”
E. M. Cioran
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“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”
E. M. Cioran
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“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”
E. M. Cioran
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“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
E. M. Cioran
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“The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.”
E. M. Cioran
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“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live –moreover, the only one.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven’t been cut off.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”
E. M. Cioran
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“To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.”
E. M. Cioran
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“No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.”
E. M. Cioran
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“God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.”
E. M. Cioran
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“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”
E. M. Cioran
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“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”
E. M. Cioran
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