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Pursued by our origins... we all are.

Emile M. Cioran

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My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
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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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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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The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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Under each formula lies a corpse.
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An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
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Society: an inferno of saviors!
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Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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