Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. - Emile M. Cioran - Quotesmemo.com

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Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

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Emile M. Cioran

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

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

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I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

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Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

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