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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emile M. Cioran
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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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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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
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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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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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