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

Emile M. Cioran

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Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.
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One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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Word - that invisible dagger.
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