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" To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. "
Emile M. Cioran
Hope
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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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" Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. "
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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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" What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. "
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" The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. "
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" A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. "
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