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Emil Michel Cioran. The most famous aphorisms

Sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly reminds us of the main thing: it shows us what price we have to pay for the invention of the word.
All these children whom I did not want to have - if only they knew what happiness they owe me!
The main thing often opens at the end of a long conversation. Great truths are spoken at the threshold.
For a writer, changing the language is like writing a love letter with a dictionary.
For a person who has just recovered from a love illness, the possibility of a new passion seems so unthinkable that it seems to him that all living beings, down to the last midge, are plunged into an abyss of disappointment.
If I had acted in accordance with my first impulse, I would have done nothing but write scolding and farewell letters all day long.
A woman was significant only as long as she pretended to be bashful and reserved. What a mistake she makes when she ceases to play this role! She is worthless now that she has become like us. This is how one of the last illusions that made our existence bearable disappears.
You learn more in one sleepless night than in a year of sleep.
The ideally truthful person that we are always free to imagine is the one who will never take refuge in euphemisms.
To get rid of life means to deprive yourself of the pleasure of laughing at it. The only possible response to a person who declares to you his intention to commit suicide.
When you get out of the circle of errors and delusions within which actions are performed, it becomes almost impossible to take any position. For everything - for affirmation and even for negation - one needs at least a drop of stupidity.
When you think that you have reached a certain degree of detachment, you consider all enthusiasts, including the founders of religious teachings, to be comedians. But doesn't detachment itself participate in this comedy? If any actions are feigned, the very renunciation of them is also such - and yet it is a noble pretense.
The best way to get rid of an enemy is to say only good things about him everywhere. They will tell him this, and he will no longer be able to harm you: you have broken his spirit ... He will still fight against you, but without much zeal and perseverance, because subconsciously he has already stopped hating you. He is defeated without even knowing his own defeat.
The best way to find true friends is to congratulate them on failures.
Melancholy feeds on itself, which is why it is unable to renew itself.
One can imagine and foresee everything except the depth of one's fall.
A young German asks me for a franc. I enter into a conversation with him and find out that he traveled the world, was in India, fell in love with the beggars there and imagined himself like them. However, belonging to a nation prone to didactics does not go unpunished. I watched him begging: he did it as if he studied begging in courses.
We achieve almost everything except what we secretly desire. And it is probably true that the most precious thing for us turns out to be unattainable and that the most important thing in ourselves and in the path we have traveled remains undiscovered, unrealized. Providence has arranged everything wonderfully: let everyone benefit and glory from the greatness of his broken soul.
For some - in truth, the majority - music encourages and consoles, while others find in it a welcome dissolution, an unexpected way to lose themselves, to plunge into what is best in the world.
The undeniable advantage of the dying: the ability to utter platitudes without compromising themselves.
Nothing hinders liberation like the need to fail.
He had the shamelessness to die. Indeed, there is something indecent in death. Of course, this aspect of her comes to mind last.
The organist played in a deserted church. There was no one else, only a cat twirling at my feet ... I was shocked by the passion of the musician: questions that forever tormented me flooded over me. The organ's answer seemed unsatisfactory to me, but, given my then state, it was still - in spite of everything - an answer.
When I opened an anthology of religious texts, I immediately attacked this dictum of the Buddha: "No object is worth coveting." I immediately closed the book, for what else to read after that?
Letters that deal only with mental anguish and metaphysical issues quickly get bored. To create the impression of believability, everything needs a share of pettiness. If the angels took up writing, then - with the exception of the fallen ones - it would be impossible to read them. Impeccable purity is difficult to digest because it is incompatible with inspiration.
A letter worthy of being called such is written under the influence of admiration or indignation - in general, extreme feelings. It is clear why reasonable writing is stillborn writing.
As our memory wanes, the praises we were once lavished with are erased, but the curses remain. And rightly so: praises were rarely deserved, while curses throw some light on what we did not know about ourselves before.
Knowledge in the ordinary sense is liberation from something, knowledge in the absolute sense is liberation from everything. Insight is another step forward: it is the certainty that from now on you will never fall for the bait. This is the last look at delusions.
To break with one's gods, with one's ancestors, with one's language and country, to break with everything is a terrible ordeal, of course, but at the same time it is a delightful experience that defectors and, even more so, traitors so eagerly seek.
At the slightest dissatisfaction, and even more so at the slightest chagrin, you should quickly run to the nearest cemetery, where you immediately find such peace that you will not find anywhere else. Great medicine in one go.
I walked through the Montparnasse cemetery. Everyone - young and old - made plans for the future. They don't build anymore.
This morning, when I heard some astronomer talking about myriads of suns, I did not put myself in order: why wash now?
Boredom is undoubtedly a form of anxiety, but anxiety cleansed of fear. In fact, when you are bored, you fear nothing but boredom itself.
There is a bit of pity in any form of affection: in love, and even in friendship, except, however, admiration.
Only in youth is there a desire for friendship and the ability for it. It is quite clear to an elderly person that most of all he is afraid that his friends will not survive him.
Just flipped through one biography. The idea that all the characters mentioned in it already exist only on the pages of this book seemed so unbearable to me that I lay down so as not to faint.
We all have some kind of mania that prevents us from unconditionally accepting the highest bliss.
Passers-by have idiotic faces - and how did we come to this? Is it possible to imagine such a spectacle in antiquity, for example in Athens?
To die means to change the genre, to renew itself.
By dying, a person becomes the master of the universe.
It takes incredible humility to die. It's strange that everyone shows such humility.
I struggle to imagine a universe without... me. Fortunately, the existence of death makes up for my lack of imagination.
I prefer women to men, because women have the advantage over men that they are less balanced, and therefore more complex, more insightful and more cynical, not to mention the mysterious superiority that gave them a thousand years of slavery.
I spent hour after hour thinking about what seemed to me most worthy of deep study: about the vanity of everything that exists - that is, that it is not worth even a second of reflection, because it is not clear what else can be said for or against the very evidence of this fact.

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