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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“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you — what a revelation.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Irons and the unbreathable air of this world strip us of everything, except the freedom to kill ourselves; and this freedom grants us a strength and pride to triumph over the loads which overwhelm us.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To fear is to die every minute.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Pursued by our origins…we all are.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)