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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“If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“If I were asked to summarize as briefly as possible my vision of things, to reduce it to its most succinct expression, I should replace words with an exclamation point, a definitive!”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“To read is to let someone else work for you — the most delicate form of exploitation.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“In order to deceive melancholy, you must keep moving. Once you stop, it wakens, if in fact it has ever dozed off.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Nothing surpasses the pleasures of idleness: even if the end of the world were to come, I would not leave my bed at an ungodly hour.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“For a long time — always, in fact — I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn't able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of course not. For such a person there are only unmotivated motives for living. On the heights of despair, the passion for the absurd is the only thing that can still throw a demonic light on chaos. When all the current reasons — moral, esthetic, religious, social, and so on — no longer guide one's life, how can one sustain life without succumbing to nothingness? Only by a connection with the absurd, by love of absolute uselessness, loving something which does not have substance but which simulates an illusion of life. I live because the mountains do not laugh and the worms do not sing.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)