Emile M. Cioran

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.