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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

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



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Notre place est quelque part entre l'être et le non-être, entre deux fictions.




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To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Some things are hastening to be, others to have come and gone, and a part of what is coming into being is already extinct.




Quotes for: to be


Quotes

Quotes for "to be" or about being:


The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.





Become who you are!





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





I think, therefore I am.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.











Quotes

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.





The essential has never required the least talent.





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












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