Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
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Delirium
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Lauren Oliver
Author
"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it"
Lauren Oliver
Author
"Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature."
Lauren Oliver
Author
"I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
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"I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born."
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"Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality."
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"I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps."
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"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."
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"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
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"Love: It will kill you and save you, both"
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"The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t."
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"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."
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"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge."
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"It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care."
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"Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is."
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"He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world."
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"Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things."
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