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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
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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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Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
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