#om

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

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

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #trembling #without

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#concession #conscious #diminution #each #immediately

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fear #history #our #result #ultimately

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fragmentary #god #incomplete #ourselves #understand

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested