The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.Emile M. Cioran
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.
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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
Emile M. Cioran
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran
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