Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emil Cioran
life man new-day
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
mystery life man
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
man thetimes time
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
man order action
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
man
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
impossibility man
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
sleep man
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
appearance belief man
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
man suppression
Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.
Characteristic of sickness: to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
sleep man rest
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
talent man
Man is a robot with defects.
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
wrongs paradise man rest
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