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We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emile M. Cioran
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Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
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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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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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