"The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
-Emile M. Cioran
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"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.“
-Emile M. Cioran
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"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."
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"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
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"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
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