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Wisdom disguises our wounds it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
Emile M. Cioran
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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 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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Word - that invisible dagger.
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
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The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
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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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Under each formula lies a corpse.
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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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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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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
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