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Emile M. Cioran quotes about great

Romanian Philosopher April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995

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Emile M. Cioran quote: "Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the..."
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. Emile M. Cioran
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable. The great solitaries were happy in the old days, knew nothing of duplicity, had nothing to hide: they conversed only with their own solitude. Emile M. Cioran
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. Emile M. Cioran
Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee. Emile M. Cioran
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic. Emile M. Cioran
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads..."
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. Emile M. Cioran

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