Emile M. Cioran Quotes

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

- Emile M. Cioran

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Freedom | Appearances | Simulacra | Striven | Sensation |

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