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Emil M. Cioran Quote: “Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: “What do you expect of this world?” stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep.”

201. “Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: “What do you expect of this world?” stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “Paganism is the deepening of appearances, while saintliness is the sickness of depths.”

202. “Paganism is the deepening of appearances, while saintliness is the sickness of depths.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “I remember a place I have been only if I have had the luck to experience utter misery there.”

203. “I remember a place I have been only if I have had the luck to experience utter misery there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “What I discern in each moment is its exhaustion, its death-rattle, and not the transition to the next moment. I generate dead time, wallowing in the asphyxia of becoming.”

204. “What I discern in each moment is its exhaustion, its death-rattle, and not the transition to the next moment. I generate dead time, wallowing in the asphyxia of becoming.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future.”

205. “As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...”

206. “The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “Man is free – and sterile – only in the interval when the gods die; slave – and creative – only in the interval when, as tyrants, they flourish.”

207. “Man is free – and sterile – only in the interval when the gods die; slave – and creative – only in the interval when, as tyrants, they flourish.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “Every vanquished desire affords us power.”

208. “Every vanquished desire affords us power.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “There is something enveloping and voluptuous about the notion of fatality: it keeps you warm.”

209. “There is something enveloping and voluptuous about the notion of fatality: it keeps you warm.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “A genre becomes universal when it seduces minds which have no reason to embrace it.”

210. “A genre becomes universal when it seduces minds which have no reason to embrace it.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “A man who survives himself despises himself without acknowledging as much, sometimes without even knowing as much.”

211. “A man who survives himself despises himself without acknowledging as much, sometimes without even knowing as much.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “All great conversions are born from the sudden revelation of life’s meaninglessness. Nothing could be more moving or more impressive than this sudden apprehension of the void of existence.”

212. “All great conversions are born from the sudden revelation of life’s meaninglessness. Nothing could be more moving or more impressive than this sudden apprehension of the void of existence.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “What’s wrong – what’s the matter with you?′ Nothing, nothing’s the matter, I’ve merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don’t know where to turn, what to run for...”

213. “What’s wrong – what’s the matter with you?′ Nothing, nothing’s the matter, I’ve merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don’t know where to turn, what to run for...”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “All nihilists have wrestled with God. One more proof of his kinship with nothingness. After you have trampled everything underfoot, his is the last bastion of nothingness left.”

214. “All nihilists have wrestled with God. One more proof of his kinship with nothingness. After you have trampled everything underfoot, his is the last bastion of nothingness left.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one.”

215. “He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “If only I could reach the level of the man I would have liked to be! But some power, increasing year by year, draws me down.”

216. “If only I could reach the level of the man I would have liked to be! But some power, increasing year by year, draws me down.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “It may very well be tht man’s sole purpose is none other than to think of god. If we could either love him or ignore him we would be saved.”

217. “It may very well be tht man’s sole purpose is none other than to think of god. If we could either love him or ignore him we would be saved.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “A nation which no longer rapes is in its decadence; the number of rapes reveals its instincts, and its future. Find out in which war it has stopped practicing, on a large scale, this variety of crime: you will have found the first symbol of its decline; find out at what moment love has become for a nation a ceremonial, and the bed a condition of orgasm, and you will identify the beginning of its deficiencies and the end of its barbaric inheritance.”

218. “A nation which no longer rapes is in its decadence; the number of rapes reveals its instincts, and its future. Find out in which war it has stopped practicing, on a large scale, this variety of crime: you will have found the first symbol of its decline; find out at what moment love has become for a nation a ceremonial, and the bed a condition of orgasm, and you will identify the beginning of its deficiencies and the end of its barbaric inheritance.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it.”

219. “The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it.”

— Emil M. Cioran

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