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Emile M. Cioran Quotes: To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
         

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.


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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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