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Emile M. Cioran
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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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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My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety refuge among anemic ideas.
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Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
Emile M. Cioran
We cannot be normal and alive at the same 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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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
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Society: an inferno of saviors!
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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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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
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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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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
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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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the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
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There is no limit to suffering.
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