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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. Cioran
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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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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
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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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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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Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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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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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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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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Time is heavy sometimes imagine how heavy eternity must be.
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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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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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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