Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

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• Emil Cioran:

  Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

• Emil Cioran:

  Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

• Emil Cioran:

  What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

• Emil Cioran:

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

• Emil Cioran:

  No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

• Emil Cioran:

  For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

• Emil Cioran:

  Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

• Emil Cioran:

  A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

• Emil Cioran:

  Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

• Emil Cioran:

  A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.