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Emil Cioran
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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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