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Emil Cioran

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Biography - Emil Cioran:

Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
Born: 1911 - Died: 1995
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Romania

The essential has never required the least talent.



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(French)



French
L'essentiel n'a jamais exigé le moindre talent.




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Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.





Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.





Talent is shaped in tranquility;
Character in the stream of life.






His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.





A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.





With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.











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Emil Cioran also said...


The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.





I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.





A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.





Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.





One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.












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