„I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I“
— Fernando Pessoa