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Emile M. Cioran

"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
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