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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?“

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„Na co čekáte, abyste to vzdali?“

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Emil Cioran: Citáty anglicky

“When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What am I, other than a chance in the infinite probabilities of not having been!”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“To be is to be cornered.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To withstand any truth…”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Eternity is absence.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“You really should come to the house — one of these days we might die without having seen each other again.”

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"Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"
Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed are those who suffer from it, who are a prey to questioning, and who can accept no given because they were born in consternation.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise us, we know them too well. Now, without anything unexpected in them, they do not deserve to be endured.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“It is debasing to die the way one does; it is intolerable to be exposed to an end over which we have no control, an end which lies in wait for us, overthrows us, casts us into the unnameable. ”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“I admire only two types of people: the potentially mad and the potential suicide.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“There is only this swarm of dying creatures stricken with longevity, all the more hateful in that they are so good at organizing their agony.”

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Zdroj: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 120, first American edition (1970)

“At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934), essay 2 - On not wanting to live

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