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Quotes from All Gall Is Divided — Emil Cioran

1911–1995 France

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The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Without its assiduity to the ridiculous, would the human race have lasted more than a single generation?

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There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition.

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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

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If someone incessantly drops the word "life," you know he's a sick man.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.

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What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim.

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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

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Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Philosophy's error is to be too endurable.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Anxiety — or the fanaticism of the worst.

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

The moment we believe we've understood everything grants us the look of a murderer.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emil Cioran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.