Emil Cioran: Citations en anglais

Emil Cioran était philosophe et écrivain roumain, d'expression roumaine initialement, puis française. Citations en anglais.
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“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."”

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Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

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The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)