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Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
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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The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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