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181 " Că s-a spus totul, că nu mai e nimic de spus — o ştim, o simţim. Dar ceea ce simţim mai puţin e că această evidenţă conferă limbajului un statut straniu, chiar îngrijorător, care-l eliberează. Cuvintele sunt în sfîrşit salvate, pentru că au încetat să trăiască. "
― Emil M. Cioran , The Trouble with Being Born
182 " Nu cunosc pe nimeni mai inutil şi mai inutilizabil ca mine. E un fapt pe care ar trebui să-l accept pur şi simplu,fără să mă consider cîtuşi de puţin mîndru pentru asta. Dacă nu va fi aşa, conştiinţa inutilităţii mele nu-mi vaservi la nimic. "
183 " أشعر بأني حر لكني أعرف أني لست كذلك. "
184 " Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions. "
185 " Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove them off with stones. And hearing their supernatural shrieks, I realized that that was just what I wanted, that only the Sinister could soothe me, and that it was for such a confrontation that I had got up before dawn. "
186 " Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past. "
187 " I dream of an ideal confessor to tell everything to, spill it all: I dream of a blasé saint. "
188 " الحر هو من تبيّن بطلان كل وجهات النظر، والمتحرر هو من استخلص العبرة من ذلك. "
189 " We do not adopt a belief because it is true (they are all true), but because some obscure power impels us to do so. When this power leaves us, we suffer prostration and collapse, a tete-a-tete with what is left of ourselves. "
190 " If it is true that God dislikes taking sides, I should feel no awkwardness in His presence, so pleased would I be to imitate Him, to be like Him, in everything, “without opinion. "
191 " After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive? "
192 " What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant. "
193 " Kill yourself because of what you are, yes, but not because all humanity would spit in your face! "
194 " Cu cât e cineva mai dăruit, cu atât înaintează mai greu în plan spiritual. Talentul e un obstacol pentru viaţa interioară. "
195 " Everything that lives makes noise. What an argument for the mineral kingdom! "
196 " Due nemici sono lo stesso uomo dimezzato. "
197 " The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived. "
198 " I shall never utterly admire anyone except a man dishonored — and happy. There is a man, I should say, who defies the opinion of his fellows and who finds consolation and happiness in himself alone. "
199 " Everything that is engenders, sooner or later, nightmares. Let us try, therefore, to invent something better than being. "
200 " بمجرد التفكير في أن لا أكون ولدت، أي سعادة! أي حرية! أي مدى. "