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Emile M. Cioran

  • The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.... Emile M. Cioran {view}
  • Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.... Emile M. Cioran {view}
  • You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the "mystery" of life.... Emile M. Cioran {view}
  • Life is nothing; death, everything. Yet there is nothing which is death, independent of life. It is precisely this absence of autonomous, distinct reality which makes death universal; it has no realm of its own, it is omnipresent, like everything which lacks identity, limit, and bearing: an indecent infinitude.... Emile M. Cioran {view}