149 ordspråk av Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
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A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and it's tomb.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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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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Balkans - that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire the last "primitives" in Europe.
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Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
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Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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