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Man is a robot with defects.
EMILE CIORAN, The Trouble With Being Born
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
EMILE CIORAN, The New Gods
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness -- that is, the improbable -- with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
E.M. CIORAN, History and Utopia
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
E.M. CIORAN, History and Utopia
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
EMILE CIORAN, A Short History of Decay
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind.
EMILE CIORAN, A Short History of Decay
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
EMILE CIORAN, A Short History of Decay
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