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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“"Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt." - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We are all secularised anarchists today.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I am displeased with everything. If they made me God, I would immediately resign.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which has spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be innocent.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth...”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“One of the biggest paradoxes of our world: memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician's invention.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I dream of wanting — and all I want seems to me worthless.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“When you love someone, you hope — the more closely to be attached — that a catastrophe will strike your beloved.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)