Cioran

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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.
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)