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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Emile M. Cioran

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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
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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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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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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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We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.
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