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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

Emile M. Cioran

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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
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The universal view melts things into a blur.
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Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
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Time is heavy sometimes imagine how heavy eternity must be.
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Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
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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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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
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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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How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
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