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

Emile M. Cioran

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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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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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Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.
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If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
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I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
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Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
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How easy it is to be deep: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
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All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
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The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
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