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Emil Cioran

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Emil Cioran

“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”

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“A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.”

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“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

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“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.”

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“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

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

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“Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.”

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“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”

Source/Notes: The Trouble with Being Born (Viking Press, 1976), p. 77

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

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

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“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

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“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”

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