If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.Emile M. Cioran
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
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All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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