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126 Quotes by Romanian authors

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Romanian words carry the hush of forests and the hum of village courtyards, mixing tenderness with a flint-edged irony. From doina melancholy and the ache of dor to the stubborn humor that outwits hardship, sayings weigh fate against free will and find dignity in small labors. Ballads like Miorița murmur of destiny, while Orthodox candles and plum brandy warm the night. Expect wisdom that is earthy, lyrical, and unsentimental, truths spoken softly, with patience, hospitality, and a gaze that holds memory and resolve.

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"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"
Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor
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"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"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"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"We are afraid of the enormity of the possible"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife"
Ilie Nastase, Athlete
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"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Sperm is a bandit in its pure state"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Everything is pathology, except for indifference"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win"
Nadia Comaneci, Athlete
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action"
Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor
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"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them"
Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor
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"I never promised you a rose garden"
Traian Basescu, Politician
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"Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
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