Emile M. Cioran

Emile M. Cioran — Philosophical Quotes

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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
Philosophical
“To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.”
Able Effort Cost