Quotes from E.M. Cioran
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
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And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?
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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
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I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.
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We are ourselves only by the sum of our failures.
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
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Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.
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Memory's one function is to help us regret
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A força explosiva da mais pequena mortificação. Todo o desejo vencido nos torna poderosos. Quanto mais nos afastamos dele, e a ele deixamos de aderir, melhor dominamos este mundo. A renúncia confere um poder infinito.
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Haven't people learnned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?
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To have the vice of scruple - to be an automaton of remorse.
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I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss.
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A negação nunca sai de um raciocínio mas sim de algo obscuro e antigo. Os argumentos vêm depois, para a justificar e apoiar. Todo o não surge do sangue.
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Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.
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O que torna os maus poetas ainda piores é o facto de apenas lerem poetas (tal como os maus filósofos apenas lêem filósofos), quando eles tirariam um proveito bem maior de um livro de botânica ou de geologia. Só nos enriquecemos se frequentarmos disciplinas afastadas da nossa. Isto só é verdade, claro está, nos domínios em que grassa o eu.
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A única confissão sincera é aquela que fazemos indirectamente - ao falarmos dos outros.
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Por muito que me esforce, não consigo desprezar todos esses séculos durante os quais nos dedicámos unicamente a dar uma última demão na definição de Deus.
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Só às crianças e aos loucos perdoamos que sejam francos connosco: os outros, caso tenham a audácia de os imitar, arrepender-se-ão mais cedo ou mais tarde de o terem feito.
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Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
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The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.
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