Emil Cioran nejznámější citáty
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Zdroj: [Procházka, Milan, Podvratný dobrodruh Duteurtre, novinky.cz, 2004-01-09, 2011-03-02, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/23153-podvratny-dobrodruh-duteurtre.html]
Emil Cioran: Citáty anglicky
“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“The need to devour oneself absolves one of the need to believe.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.”
Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
