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The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

Emile M. Cioran
Mean, Solitude, Sole
Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Emile M. Cioran
Solitude, Encounters, Doing Nothing

Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

Emile M. Cioran
Love Is, Heaven, Solitude
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Emile M. Cioran
Solitude, Sin, Purity
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Emile M. Cioran
Solitude, Protect, Ifs
Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

Emile M. Cioran
Light, Solitude, Principles
"On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

Tears do not burn except in solitude.

Emile M. Cioran
Solitude, Tears
"On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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.

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