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Pursued by our origins... we all are.

Emile M. Cioran

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Emile M. Cioran
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Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
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Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
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One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
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For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
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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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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
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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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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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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
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Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
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We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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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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If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
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