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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.
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I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
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One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
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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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To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
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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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To hope is to contradict the future.
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Pursued by our origins... we all are.
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