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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.
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Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
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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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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
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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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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
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We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
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Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
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