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Emile M. Cioran
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.
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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 Holy Ghost, Luther instructs us, is not a skeptic. Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
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Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.
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Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
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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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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: I want to be praised.
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I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
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How easy it is to be deep: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
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Pursued by our origins... we all are.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
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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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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
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