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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

Emile M. Cioran

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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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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.
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All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
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