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" Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. "
Emile M. Cioran
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" We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. "
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" It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. "
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" Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. "
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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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" We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. "
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" To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. "
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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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" Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. "
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" Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? "
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" God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. "
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" Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. "
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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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" Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. "
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" Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. "
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