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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." — E. M. Cioran
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Insomnia   

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"Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act." — E. M. Cioran
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Sex   

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"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment." — E. M. Cioran
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Torture   

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"Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude." — E. M. Cioran
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Fear   

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"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off." — E. M. Cioran
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Martyrdom   

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"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it." — E. M. Cioran
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Martyrdom   

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"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one." — E. M. Cioran
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Life    Meaning Of Life   

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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness." — E. M. Cioran
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Music   

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"Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise." — E. M. Cioran
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Oppression   

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"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot." — E. M. Cioran
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Self-image   

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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility." — E. M. Cioran
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Suicide   

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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness." — E. M. Cioran
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Vitality   

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"Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history." — E. M. Cioran
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Decay   

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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh." — E. M. Cioran
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Consciousness   

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"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil." — E. M. Cioran
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Evil   

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"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish." — E. M. Cioran
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Aggression   

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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech." — E. M. Cioran
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Conversation   

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"To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being." — E. M. Cioran
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Existence   

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"Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter." — E. M. Cioran
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Bigotry   

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"A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect." — E. M. Cioran
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Disease   

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"The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are." — E. M. Cioran
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Egotism   

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