Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ✨ History …

Emile M. Cioran
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horro … ▶
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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