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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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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.

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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

By Emile M. Cioran