Эмиль Мишель Чоран: Цитаты на английском языке

Эмиль Мишель Чоран было румынский и французский мыслитель-эссеист. Цитаты на английском языке.

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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)
Источник: 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 книга 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 книга The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Источник: 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 книга The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”

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Источник: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“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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“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 книга The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Источник: 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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Источник: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

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

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“We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.”

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“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”

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Источник: Tears and Saints (1937)

“I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.”

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Emil M. Cioran книга The Trouble With Being Born

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

“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”

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Emil M. Cioran книга The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Вариант: To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”

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Emil M. Cioran книга The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”

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Emil M. Cioran книга A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”

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Источник: Drawn and Quartered

“A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society”

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