Emil Cioran: Frasi in inglese

Emil Cioran era filosofo, scrittore e saggista rumeno. Frasi in inglese.
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“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Origine: The Trouble with Being Born

“"Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Origine: The Trouble with Being Born

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act."”

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Emil M. Cioran libro The Trouble With Being Born

And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Origine: The Trouble with Being Born

“Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.”

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Variante: Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
Origine: Tears and Saints (1937)

“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”

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Origine: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Read day and night, devour books — these sleeping pills — not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”

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Origine: Tears and Saints (1937)

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Origine: The Trouble with Being Born

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”

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“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

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“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Origine: The Trouble with Being Born

“The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”

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Emil M. Cioran libro A Short History of Decay

Origine: A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.”

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