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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

- Emil Cioran

Paradise, Torture, Itself, Convert

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

- Emil Cioran

Sleep, Tragedy, Worse, Befall

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

- Emil Cioran

Release, Most, Capital, Nothingness

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

- Emil Cioran

My Life, More, Thus, Bearable

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

- Emil Cioran

Deep, Always, However, Insolence

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

- Emil Cioran

Die, Born, Been, Bored

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