Only what we have not accomplished and what we could not accomplish matters to us, so that what remains of a whole life is only what it will not have… - Emil Cioran

It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.

Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral...

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.