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Normal people have nothing to forget.
Emile M. Cioran
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I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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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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Society: an inferno of saviors!
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All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?
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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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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
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There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
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True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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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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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
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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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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
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