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11 Quotes for 'E. M. Cioran' in the Database.
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E. M. Cioran Quotes
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Topic: Books and Reading
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Topic: Dreams
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Topic: Fanaticism
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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.
Topic: History
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Topic: Melancholy
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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.
Topic: Melancholy
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The Tempation to Exist.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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