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The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Emile M. Cioran
Voice, Solitude, Doe
"The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

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Thinking, People, Doe
"Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

Emile M. Cioran
Insomnia, Light, Diversity

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Emile M. Cioran
Secret, Kind, Misanthropy

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

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Faces, Lost, Appeals

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Emile M. Cioran
Inspirational, Fear, Real

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

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Regret, Pay, Damage
"History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

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Revenge, Thinking, Camouflage

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Emile M. Cioran
Abuse, Philosopher, Pity

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Emile M. Cioran
Writing, Philosopher, Professors
"Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

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Light, Return, Welcome
"On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Emile M. Cioran
Knowing, Reason, Ifs
Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.49, Arcade Publishing

Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Emile M. Cioran
Poison, Synthesis, Woe
"History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

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Despair, Tasks, Lucidity
Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.26, Arcade Publishing

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

Emile M. Cioran
Night, Insomnia, Tunes

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.

Emile M. Cioran
Night, Insomnia, Parent
"Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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

Emile M. Cioran
Intellectual, Nationality
Emile M. Cioran (1970). “The fall into time”, Crown

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

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Time, Echoes, Ennui
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

Emile M. Cioran
Aphorism, Midst, Known
Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.7, Arcade Publishing

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

Emile M. Cioran
Spiritual, Pride, Erosion
Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

Emile M. Cioran
Flames, Fire, Trying
"The Trouble With Being Born". Book by Emil Cioran, 1973.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Emile M. Cioran
Lying, Formulas, Corpses
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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