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Emil Cioran byl rumunsko-francouzský filozof.

✵ 8. duben 1911 – 20. červen 1995
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Emil Cioran: 540 citátů5 lajků

Emil Cioran nejznámější citáty

„Když víte, že nic není skutečné, nechápete, proč byste se měli namáhat s dokazováním.“

Emil Cioran

„Největší událostí druhé poloviny 20. století je zanikání chodníků.“

Emil Cioran

Zdroj: [Procházka, Milan, Podvratný dobrodruh Duteurtre, novinky.cz, 2004-01-09, 2011-03-02, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/23153-podvratny-dobrodruh-duteurtre.html]

„Člověk se naplní teprve tehdy, když přestane být člověkem.“

Emil Cioran

„Koneckonců, proč by obyčejní lidé měli chtít uvažovat o konci, zvláště když vidíme, v jakém stavu jsou ti, kteří o něm uvažují?“

Emil Cioran

„Říkával jsi, že musíme žít, jako bychom nikdy neměli zemřít. Copak nevíš, že tak žijí všichni, včetně těch, kteří jsou posedlí smrtí?“

Emil Cioran

„Na co čekáte, abyste to vzdali?“

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran: Citáty anglicky

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

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Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

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Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

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The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

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Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

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“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Self-knowledge — the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood — all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Except for music, everything is a lie, even solitude, even ecstasy. Music, in fact, is the one and the other, only better.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

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