More from Emile Cioran

  1. What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist,…
  2. 'Every time I think of Christ's crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.' - I love Simone Weil when she vies with the greatest saints for pri…
  3. Consciousness is nature's nightmare. (p.102)
  4. In this dream, I was flattering someone I despise. Waking, a greater self-loathing than if I had really committed such vileness...
  5. We cannot sufficiently blame the nineteenth century for having favored that breed of glossators, those reading machines, that deformation o…
  6. True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
  7. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. (p.74)
  8. We must censure the later Nietzsche for a panting excess in the writing, the absence of rests.

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