#cioran

"...for what is knowing finally but putting something in question? That kind of knowing, that understanding that pushes too far, is dangerous."

"Lucidity is not necessarily compatible with life, actually not at all. To me it was a question of an experience to a certain degree beyond suicide, an experience of nothingness, of the absolute conciousness of nothingness. Indeed, such a situation is not compatible with existence and either one becomes full of faith or one kills oneself or one does I don't know what."

"I had read the mystics, of course, and what pleased me most about their works was their excessive and entirely personal nature, as well as the fact that the mystics spoke with God as man to man, so to speak. The fact that everything in the mystics is personal attracted me."

"One has simply a completely different attitude toward time: not time that passes, but time that will not go away."

"The experience of having been an accident and not a necessity meant a certain liberation for me..."

"Tout enfantement est suspect ; les anges, par bonheur, y sont impropres, la propagation de la vie étant réservée aux déchus. [...] quoiqu'il arrive, il y aura partout assez de niais qui ne demanderont qu'à se perpétuer, et, si eux-mêmes finissaient par s'y dérober, on trouvera toujours, pour se dévouer, quelque couple hideux."

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