More from Emile Cioran

  1. To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
  2. Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
  3. Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of…
  4. Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
  5. To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
  6. Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.
  7. Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
  8. The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

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