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

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Everyone must destroy their life. According to the way they do it, they're either triumphants or failures.”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action — mother of all vices — I am the cause of no one's suffering.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts…”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name — and moving on.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think!”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“We regret not having the courage to make such and such decision; we regret much more having made one — any one. Better no action than the consequences of an action.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)