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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran
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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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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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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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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
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Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
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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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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
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Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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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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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
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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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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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The Holy Ghost, Luther instructs us, is not a skeptic. Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.
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To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
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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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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
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Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
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