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En las cimas de la desesperación
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The Evil Demiurge
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BONECO: MINHA ANTOLOGIA NIILISTA: Do Pensamento de Cioran
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BONECO: MINHA ANTOLOGIA NIILISTA: Do Pensamento de Cioran
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“Aphorisms are also momentary truths. They're not decrees. And I could tell you in nearly every case why I wrote this or that phrase, and when. It's always set in motion by an encounter, an incident, a fit of temper, but they all have a cause.”
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“The frightened man - victim of an exaggerated subjectivity - believes himself to be, much more than the rest of his kind, the target of hostile events.
He encounters the brave man in this error, for the brave man, at the antipodes, sees only invulnerability everywhere. Both have attained the extremity of a self-infatuated consciousness: everything conspires against the one; to the other, everything is favourable.”
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He encounters the brave man in this error, for the brave man, at the antipodes, sees only invulnerability everywhere. Both have attained the extremity of a self-infatuated consciousness: everything conspires against the one; to the other, everything is favourable.”
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“Without the idea of suicide, I would have killed myself for sure. What kept me alive was the fact that I always had this escape door. In fact, without the idea of suicide, I could not have endured life. For me, the idea of suicide is related to the idea of freedom. With this idea, I could bear anything.”
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