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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“We make choices, decisions, as long as we keep to the surface of things; once we reach the depths, we can neither choose nor decide, we can do nothing but regret the surface…”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Creation is in fact a fault, man's famous sin thereby appearing as a minor version of a much graver one. What are we guilty of, except of having followed, more or less slavishly, the Creator's example? Easy to recognize in ourselves the fatality which was His: not for nothing have we issued from the hands of a wicked and woebegone god, a god accursed.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.”

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The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Tolerance — the function of an extinguished ardor — tolerance cannot seduce the young.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe?”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Only the idiot is equipped to breathe.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)