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Quotes by Romanian Authors
"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
"The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death."
"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."
"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
"We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity."
"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
"There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout."
"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."
"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
"To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death."
"The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain."
"The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone."
"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."
"The world of an animal is reduced to its perimeter. Human world is reduced to its perimeter, but does the world of God have perimeters? If it does then it is not infinite, but if it doesn't, it means that this is not a world."
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness."
"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."
"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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