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

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Consciousness Dagger Flesh More Much Than Thorn

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

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Among Been Cut Great Heads Martyrs Off Whose

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

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Could Others Ourselves See Spot Us Vanish Would

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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Aversion Jealousy Secret Worship

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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Among Comfortable How Me Mission Time Turn

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

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Accident Seriously Simply Take Why

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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Apart Echo Ennui Itself Tearing Time Us

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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Ardor Cannot Function Seduce Tolerance Young

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Always Distant Enemy Gate Preferable

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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Sadism Skepticism Souls

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Biography

Nationality: Romanian

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 8th, 1911

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