Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event? - Emil Cioran

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.

"What's wrong — what's the matter with you?" Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for...