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" Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. "
Emile M. Cioran
Been
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" A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. "
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" In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. "
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" You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. "
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" It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. "
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" Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. "
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" To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. "
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" Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. "
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" Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. "
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" To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. "
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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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" Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. "
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" Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. "
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" Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. "
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" In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. "
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