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Emil Cioran quotes

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“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything… Was boredom unknown to them?” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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