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Emile M. Cioran
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Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
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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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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act. And they do calm down.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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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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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
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My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
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There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
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Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.
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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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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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Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
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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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What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.
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