If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there. - Emil Cioran

All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.

If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!

I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.