Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ✨ Emile …

Emile M. Cioran
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so conf … ▶
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses … ▶
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books

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