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Emile M. Cioran Quotes: If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
         

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.


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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.



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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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Our first intuitions are the true ones.



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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.



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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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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.



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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.



Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?





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