A phantom cannot be cured, still less an enlightened mind. We can only cure those who belong to the earth and still have their roots in it, however superficial.
Emil Cioran
An impostor, a humbug, conscious of being so and therefore a self-spectator, is necessarily more advanced in knowledge than a steady mind full of merits and all of a piece.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
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