To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything th… - Emil Cioran

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To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Emil Cioran

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Emil Cioran (8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist whose work is known for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, which frequently engages with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism.

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Alternative Names: Emil Mihai Cioran • Emil-Michel Cioran

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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it; hence the mind feels more comfortable in the society of a braggart than in that of a martyr; and nothing is more repugnant to it than the spectacle of dying for an idea.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! - Emil Cioran

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