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Emile M. Cioran

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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
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