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

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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Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
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Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
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Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.
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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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Word - that invisible dagger.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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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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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
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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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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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