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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emile M. Cioran
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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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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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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
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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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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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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
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Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
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Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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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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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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