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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #deadly #disease #ever #recovers

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

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#consummated #feel #inferior #once #our

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every #greater #limit #pain

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#books #confide #dare #going #never

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

We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madness #our #store #vitality

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