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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. - Emile M. Cioran

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. - Emile M. Cioran

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. - Emile M. Cioran

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? - Emile M. Cioran

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. - Emile M. Cioran

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. - Emile M. Cioran

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - Emile M. Cioran

We inhabit a language rather than a country. - Emile M. Cioran

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. - Emile M. Cioran

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. - Emile M. Cioran

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. - Emile M. Cioran

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. - Emile M. Cioran

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. - Emile M. Cioran

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. - Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. - Emile M. Cioran

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. - Emile M. Cioran

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. - Emile M. Cioran

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. - Emile M. Cioran

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. - Emile M. Cioran

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. - Emile M. Cioran

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