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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
Emile M. Cioran
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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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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
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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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I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
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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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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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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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Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
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