Creative Quotations from Emile M. Cioran (0-0)

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Emile M. Cioran
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."

"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Anathemas and Admirations, "On the Verge of Existence" (1986)."
R:	"Drawn and Quartered, 1971"
A:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N:	"The New Gods, "Strangled Thoughts," sct. 1 (first published 1969; tr. 1974)."
K:	"The Trouble with Being Born, ch. 3 (1973)."