Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. 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. No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. One hardly saves a world without ruling it. Our first intuitions are the true ones. Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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