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Emil M. Cioran
“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Hermann Hesse
“But how are you going to die one day, Narcissus, since you have no mother? Without a mother one cannot love. Without a mother one cannot die.”
Herman Hesse

Emil M. Cioran
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Osamu Dazai
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

Thomas Bernhard
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
Thomas Bernhard, Correction

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