One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ✨ History and Utopia. Book…

Emile M. Cioran
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One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ✨ Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations). Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above th … ▶
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims … ▶
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books

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