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Illusion begets and sustains t...

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Even when nothing happens, eve...

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

I was walking late one night a...

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

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We are all geniuses when we dr...

We are all geniuses when we dream.

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To defy heredity is to defy bi...

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

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True confessions are written w...

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

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Each time I fail to think abou...

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

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Normal people have nothing to ...

Normal people have nothing to forget.

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One can experience loneliness ...

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

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Thinking should be like musica...

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

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Do I look like someone who has...

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' Ђ'That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

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I have always struggled, with ...

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

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We cannot be normal and alive ...

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

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Good health is the best weapon...

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

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If truth were not boring, scie...

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

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Death makes no sense except to...

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

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Hungarian Language Ђ' savage i...

Hungarian Language Ђ' savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura words of nectar and cyanide.

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We dread the future only when ...

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

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To act is to anchor in the imm...

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

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Self-conscious rejection of th...

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

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