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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran
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Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
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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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When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act. And they do calm down.
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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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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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