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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
Emile M. Cioran
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
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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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Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
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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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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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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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Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
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Normal people have nothing to forget.
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One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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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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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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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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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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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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