No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran
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SOURCE UNKNOWN You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
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ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
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Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
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DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
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DAY ONE big, medium and small.
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ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
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ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it.
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EMILE M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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EMILE M. CIORAN In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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EMILE M. CIORAN For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
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EMILE M. CIORAN Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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E. M. CIORAN Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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EMIL M. CIORAN We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
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EMIL M. CIORAN As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
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E. M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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E. M. CIORAN Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
EMIL M. CIORAN There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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EMIL M. CIORAN By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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EMIL M. CIORAN The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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EMIL M. CIORAN Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
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EMIL M. CIORAN We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
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EMIL M. CIORAN To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without man...
EMIL M. CIORAN Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, havin...
EMIL M. CIORAN Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversõ...
EMIL M. CIORAN Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, excep...
EMIL M. CIORAN My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... ...
EMIL M. CIORAN If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. EMIL M. CIORAN Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demo...
EMIL M. CIORAN Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a prăbușit din cauza ideilor.
EMIL M. CIORAN أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أ�...
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
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