"No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive."

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Emil Cioran

Romania - Philosopher

Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher and essayist who wrote both in french and romanian. He is known for his particular philosophical pessimism and discussions about suffering and nihilism.

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" Vague a l'ame melancholy yearning for the end of the world. "
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" There is no false sensation. "
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" Two enemies - the same man divided. "
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" Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred. "
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" What do you do from morning to night? "I endure myself." "
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" In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy. "
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" Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god. "
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" I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide... "
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" Glory once achieved, what is it worth? "
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" Thought is as much a lie as love or faith. "
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" One hardly saves a world without ruling it. "
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" What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music. "
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" Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream. "
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" The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual. "
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" If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. "
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" To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. "
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" Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. "
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" Eternity is absence. "
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" Hope is the normal form of delirium. "
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" Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them. "
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