In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world - Emil Cioran

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. — The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

How many disappointments are conducive to bitterness? One or a thousand, depending on the subject.

To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!