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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran
Ambition, Makes, Potential
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
Emile M. Cioran
Yourself, Learned, Chaos
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Emile M. Cioran
True, Intuitions
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Understand, Others, Read
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy, Secret, Worship
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.
Emile M. Cioran
Silence, Speech, Pay
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran
Moving On, Moving, Giving
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran
Why, Seriously, Simply
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran
Born, Deadly, Disease
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran
Life, Decision, Since
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing, Democracy, Nation
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran
Evil, Prophet, Sleeps
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
Emile M. Cioran
Time, Turn, Among
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing, Evidence
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emile M. Cioran
Others, Ourselves, Spot
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Music, Happiness, Souls
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran
Almost, Slave, Rarely
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran
Yourself, Worth, Since
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing, Proves
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing, Pride, Discover
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
Emile M. Cioran
Others, Anyone, Name
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Emile M. Cioran
Souls, Skepticism, Embittered
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran
Write, Anyone, Books
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emile M. Cioran
Left, Present, Tragedies
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.
Emile M. Cioran
Life, Done, Living

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Biography

Nationality: Romanian
Born: April 8, 1911
Died: 1995

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