More from Emile Cioran

  1. My merit is not to be totally ineffectual but to have wanted to be.
  2. Trees are massacred, houses go up - faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
  3. The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
  4. Each time I think of the essential, I seem to glimpse it in silence or explosion, in stupor or exclamation. Never in speech.
  5. The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we …
  6. The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.
  7. When we discern the unreality of everything, we ourselves become unreal, we begin to survive ourselves, however powerful our vitality, howe…
  8. Man started out on the wrong foot. the misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

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