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161 " Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place.” This old proverb makes all judgment impossible, for we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place. "
― Emil M. Cioran , The Trouble with Being Born
162 " vremea când o porneam cu bicicleta, luni în șir, prin Franța, cea mai mare plăcere a mea era să mă opresc în cimitire de țară, să mă întind între două morminte și să fumez așa ore întregi. Mă gândesc la asta ca la perioada cea mai activă din viața mea. "
163 " What a bore, someone who doesn’t deign to make an impression. Vain people are almost always annoying, but they make an effort, they take the trouble: they are bores who don’t want to be bores, and we are grateful to them for that: we end by enduring them, even by seeking them out. On the other hand, we turn livid with fury in the presence of someone who pays no attention whatever to the effect he makes. What are we to say to him, and what are we to expect from him? Either keep some vestiges of the monkey, or else stay home. "
164 " In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself. "
165 " There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books. "
166 " Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in a position to understand the many versions of his spiritual collapse. "
167 " The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are. "
168 " Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which decrees the relations among all the living: i.e., that each engenders his own enemy. "
169 " كلما عشنا أكثر اكتشفنا أنه لم يكن من المجدي أن نعيش. "
170 " Arbori masacraţi. Răsar case. Mutre, mutre pretutindeni: omul e cancerul Pământului. "
171 " My mission Is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. "
172 " Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus. "
173 " When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer. "
174 " „Ține deja de trecut“, spune el despre tot ce face, în chiar momentul actului, care e astfel privat pentru totdeauna de prezent. "
175 " لو استطعنا أن نرانا بعيون الآخرين لاختفينا علي الفور. "
176 " Adevărata legătură dintre ființe nu se stabileste decât prin prezența mută, prin aparenta necomunicare, prin schimbul misterios si fără cuvinte care seamană cu rugaciunea interioarã. "
177 " If there is so much discomfort and ambiguity in lucidity, it is because lucidity is the result of the poor use to which we have put our sleepless nights. "
178 " In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left — ignorant how to react — with a foolish grin. "
179 " When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment’s thought to the “meaning” of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not in abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness. "
180 " Să zgîlţîi oamenii, să-i trezeşti din somn, deşi ştii că prin asta săvîrşeşti o crimă şi că ar fi de o mie de ori mai bine să-i laşi să-şi vadă de treaba lor, pentru că, de altfel, cînd se trezesc, n-ai nimic să le propui... "