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A great step forward was made ...

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

I don't understand why we must...

I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

I cannot contribute anything t...

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

How important can it be that I...

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naivetГ© of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in historyЂ'greater than the fall of empiresЂ'I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

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If I were to be totally sincer...

If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.

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As far as I am concerned, I re...

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

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No matter which way we go, it ...

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

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It has been a long time since ...

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

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Skepticism is the elegance of ...

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

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All great ideas should be foll...

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

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To act is to anchor in the imm...

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

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We dread the future only when ...

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

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Hungarian Language Ђ' savage i...

Hungarian Language Ђ' savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura words of nectar and cyanide.

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Self-conscious rejection of th...

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

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What music appeals to in us it...

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

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I am the beast with a contorte...

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

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Doubt works deep within you li...

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

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I would like to explode, flow,...

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

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Only superficial minds approac...

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

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Espousing the melancholy of an...

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

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