Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Violence
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
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