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Emil M. Cioran
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„The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.“
„The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.“
„God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.“
„When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.“
„Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe?“
„One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.“
„To have grazed every form of failure, including success.“
„Only the idiot is equipped to breathe.“
„What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.“
„Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?“
„As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.“
„To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing“
„Why don’t I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.“
„Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.“
„Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.“
„To fear is to die every minute.“
„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?“
„Skepticism is an exercise in defascination.“
„To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health.“
„Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.“
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