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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“Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable. We kill only in the name of a god or of his counterfeits: the excesses provoked by the goddess Reason, by the concept of nation, class, or race are akin to those of the Inquisition or of the Reformation.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“"What is truth?" is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to "How to endure life?" And even this one pales beside the next: "How to endure oneself?" - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what's the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say?”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“You are forgiven everything provided you have a trade, a subtitle to your name, a seal on your nothingness.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral…”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass — which is better than trying to fill them.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Glory — once achieved, what is it worth?”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)