#mo

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conspicuously #firmly #fixed #memory #nothing

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#control #felt #had #i #mother

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#better #endure #giving #moving #name

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#marvel #nation #nothing #offer #once

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#comfortable #how #kill #me #mission

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#every man #evil #little #man #more

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#nothing #proves #than

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#dagger #flesh #more #much #than

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#constant #constant need #doing #far #feel