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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“"You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again." - "Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“This morning I thought, hence lost my bearings, for a good quarter of an hour.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“On the frontiers of the self: "What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I."”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Philosophy's error is to be too endurable.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor before Genesis-the dream of every consciousness sick of itself.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Never unreal, Pain is a challenge to the universal fiction. What luck to be the only sensation granted a content, if not a meaning!”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“Thought is as much a lie as love or faith.”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in an arithmetic of agonies or in the catalogues of the Incurable. It belittles the prestige of hell, and converts the slaughterhouses of time into idyls. What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist? Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle...”

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Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The skeptic is the least mysterious man in the world, and yet, starting from a certain moment, he no longer belongs to this world.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“To suffer is to produce knowledge.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. ––The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)