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“Doutbless, revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim, or else we are tangled in the subtleties of remorse; so vengeance too has its venom, though it comes closer to what we are, to what we feel, to the very law of the self; it is also healthier than magnanimity. The Furies were held to antedate the gods, Zeus included. Vengeance before Divinity! This is the Major intuition of ancient mythology.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

p. 70. https://books.google.com/books?id=5DuCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70 <br class="br">History and Utopia (1960)

“In order to conceive, and to steep ourselves in, unreality, we must have it constantly present to our minds. The day we feel it, see it, everything becomes unreal, except that unreality which alone makes existence tolerable.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade to the void.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“To act is to anchor in the imminent future.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“…all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Of all that makes us suffer, nothing — so much as disappointment — gives us the sensation of at last touching Truth.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The moment we believe we've understood everything grants us the look of a murderer.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." - I could not, alas, find anything better.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)