Émile Michel Cioran: Zitate auf Englisch

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“The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?”

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Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Nothing is indefensible — from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch Lehre vom Zerfall

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Consciousness is nature's nightmare.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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

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Emil M. Cioran buch History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What am I, other than a chance in the infinite probabilities of not having been!”

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Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“To be is to be cornered.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To withstand any truth…”

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Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Eternity is absence.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“You really should come to the house — one of these days we might die without having seen each other again.”

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"Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"
Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)