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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.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Acquired Adapt Exert First Freedom Fruitful Habit Long Mind Needs Negation Negative Once Only Our Ourselves Overcome Us

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Acquiring Despair Exist Habit

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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Accomplish Anything Financed Had Impossible Myself Nights Parents Should Sleepless Sleepless Nights Spend Surely Youth

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Action Evil Himself Man Must Order Perform Slightest Vanquish Violence

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Dying Fame Forgotten Prefer Scorned Than Want

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

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Means Preferable Proving Than

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Each Each Generation Generation Injustice Predecessors Progress Regard

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Flesh Itself Mind Result

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Derive Madness Our Store Vitality

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Always Bother Late Since Too Too Late Worth You Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: Romanian

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 8th, 1911

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