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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 multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“"Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”

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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

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act."”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Varianta: Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”

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Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Read day and night, devour books — these sleeping pills — not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”

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Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”

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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

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”

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“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

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“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

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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 true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

Zdroj: A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.”

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The Book of Delusions (1936)

“There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.”

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“I long to be free — desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.”

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The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair

“Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”

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“We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.”

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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

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”

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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

“We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job…”

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Emil M. Cioran

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique — and insignificant.”

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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 premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!”

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Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

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