Great Thoughts.
Nov 8, 2024
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Only the man who strives to fail deserves our trust : if he succeeds in this he will have killed the monster , the monster he was as long as he was concerned to act , to triumph.
We progress only to the detriment of our purity , that summa of our setbacks.
Sustained , traversed by an impulse toward corruption , our actions preclude us from paradise , fortify our failure , our fidelity to the world …
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Emil Cioran.