“I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Source: A short history of decay
“The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.”
“Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”
“Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.”
“Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms