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Pursued by our origins... we all are.

Emile M. Cioran

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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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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
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I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
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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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There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
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What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
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My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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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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