Emile M. Cioran Quotes

Basis of society: anonymous sweat. - Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. - Emile M. Cioran

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - Emile M. Cioran

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation. - Emile M. Cioran

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. - Emile M. Cioran

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. - Emile M. Cioran

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. - Emile M. Cioran

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. - Emile M. Cioran

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. - Emile M. Cioran

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