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“Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.”

Quote by Emile M. Cioran

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Emile M. Cioran

Emile M. Cioran was a Romanian-born French philosopher known for his pessimistic and existentialist views. His works deeply explored the essence of human existence, suffering, and nihilism. more

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“An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.”

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“Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.”

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“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”

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“The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!”

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“Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.”

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Source: An essay on intuitive morals [by F.P. Cobbe] 2 pt

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“If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.”

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Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.”

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“This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.”

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