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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
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There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
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Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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