Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
From Emile M. Cioran
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
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