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" The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. "
Emile M. Cioran
Live
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" So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. "
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" To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. "
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" Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. "
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" By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. "
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" I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. "
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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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" We inhabit a language rather than a country. "
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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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" In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. "
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" Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. "
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" A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. "
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" To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. "
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" A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. "
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" Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. "
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