Quotes from Emile M. Cioran

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.