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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Emile M. Cioran

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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
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Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
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Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
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Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
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An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: I want to be praised.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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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.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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To hope is to contradict the future.
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