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I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.

— Emil Cioran On the Heights of Despair (1934)

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

The Fall Into Time (1964)

Love, a tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other.

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There is only this swarm of dying creatures stricken with longevity, all the more hateful in that they are so good at organizing their agony.

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

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