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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
Emile M. Cioran
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
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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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In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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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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Wisdom disguises our wounds it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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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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Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
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Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
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I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
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To hope is to contradict the future.
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A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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