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E. M. Cioran: top 100 quotes
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Death (n.) makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from?
Death (n.) is nothing but the cessation of an anomaly that is life. The living being as such exists and is real only when threatened.
Death (n.) is nature’s most profound and immoral gift, with each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever, and without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance.
to Hope (n.) is to contradict the future.
Hope (n.) is giving the lie to the future.
Hope (n.) is the normal form of delirium.
Suicide (n.) is nirvana by violence.
Revenge (n.) is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Water (n.) is always and everywhere the color of drowning.
Eros (n.) is that to whom our concessions are holes in our desire for the absolute.
Love (n.) is the art of knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
Love (n.) is an agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.