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Emil Cioran

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To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

 
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What is there new that we have yet to accomplish? Love, for as yet we have only accomplished hatred and self-pleasing; Knowledge, for as yet we have only accomplished error and perception and conceiving; Bliss, for as yet we have only accomplished pleasure and pain and indifference; Power, for as yet we have only accomplished weakness and effort and a defeated victory; Life, for as yet we have only accomplished birth and growth and dying; Unity, for as yet we have only accomplished war and association.

 
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It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

 
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I have accomplished more toward solving the Armenian problem in three months than Abdul Hamid accomplished in thirty years!

 
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If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

 
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

 
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