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Emil Cioran

Emil M. Cioran was a Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

– Emil Cioran

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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

– Emil Cioran

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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