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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
Emile M. Cioran
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At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
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I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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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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Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
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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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Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
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Wisdom disguises our wounds it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
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Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
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To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
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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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The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule he offers himself.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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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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We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.
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