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" Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. "
Emile M. Cioran
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" Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. "
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" Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. "
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" By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. "
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" Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. "
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" When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. "
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" No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. "
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" We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. "
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" My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. "
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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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" The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. "
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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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" It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. "
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" To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. "
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" The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. "
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" If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. "
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" One hardly saves a world without ruling it. "
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" God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. "
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" What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. "
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" The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. "
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" The Universal view melts things into a blur. "
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" What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. "
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