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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
By Emile M. Cioran
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
By Emile M. Cioran
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
By Emile M. Cioran
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
By Emile M. Cioran
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
By Emile M. Cioran
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
By Emile M. Cioran
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
By Emile M. Cioran
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
By Emile M. Cioran
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
By Emile M. Cioran
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
By Emile M. Cioran
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
By Emile M. Cioran