Emile M. Cioran — Philosophical Quotes

187 quotes · Philosopher, Essayist

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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher, Essayist

Philosophical

“The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.”

Art Love Knowing

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher, Essayist

Philosophical

“If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.”

Parent Beer Overcoming

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Philosophical

“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”

Soul Music

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Philosophical

“I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.”

Intellectual Nationality

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Philosophical

“Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.”

Mind Wish Position

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Philosophical

“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.”

Long Freedom Rejection

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Philosophical

“Existing is plagiarism.”

Plagiarism

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Philosophical

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”

Memories Life Is

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Philosophical

“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”

Silence Mouths Speech

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Philosophical

“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.”

Men Suffering Loneliness

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Philosophical

“I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.”

Eye Broken

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Philosophical

“We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”

Knows Born

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