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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

By Emile M. Cioran
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
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

By Emile M. Cioran
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

By Emile M. Cioran
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

By Emile M. Cioran
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

By Emile M. Cioran
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

By Emile M. Cioran
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.

By Emile M. Cioran
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

By Emile M. Cioran
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

By Emile M. Cioran
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

By Emile M. Cioran
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

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
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

By Emile M. Cioran