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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
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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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My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
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Wisdom disguises our wounds it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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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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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
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When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
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I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
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Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
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When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
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