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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
tags: vows

Emil M. Cioran
“To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.”
Emil Cioran, History and Utopia

Thomas Bernhard
“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”
Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

Comte de Lautréamont
“One should let one’s fingernails grow for a fortnight. Oh! how sweet to snatch brutally from his bed a boy who has as yet nothing upon his upper lip, and, with eyes open wide, to feign to stroke his forehead softly, brushing back his beautiful locks! And all of a sudden, just when he least expects it, to sink your long nails into his tender breast, but not so that he dies, for if he died you would miss the sight of his subsequent sufferings. Then you drink his blood, sucking the wounds, and during this time, which should last an eternity, the child weeps.”
Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

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