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“Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that…”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Word — that invisible dagger.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Late at night. I feel like falling into a frenzy, doing some unprecedented thing to release myself, but I don't see against whom, against what…”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

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

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“We are all of us in error, the humorists excepted. They alone have discerned, as though in jest, the inanity of all that is serious and even of all that is frivolous.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

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

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)