It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say โwe" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.
Emile M. CioranThe importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
Emile M. CioranI have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
Emile M. CioranMind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Emile M. Cioran