Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
— Emil Cioran
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
