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Emil Cioran - Blog Posts
"Inutile, cercare di togliersi un'abitudine con la volontà; si smette solo quando si arriva al punto di saturazione, alla nausea e all'esasperazione. Si trionfa solo di ciò che si odia, in realtà, dopo averlo amato."
- Emil Cioran, Quaderni 1957-1972
“Saintliness is the negation of life through heavenly hysteria. How does one negate life? Through uninterrupted lucidity.”
— Emil Cioran, excerpt from Tears and Saints
“Why can’t we stay closed up inside ourselves? why do we chase after expression and form, trying to deliver ourselves of our precious contents or “meanings,” desperately attempting to organize what is after all a rebellious and chaotic process? wouldn’t it be more creative simply to surrender to out inner fluidity without any intention of objectifying it, intimately and voluptuously soaking in our inner turmoil and struggle? then we would feel with much richer intensity the whole inner growth of spiritual experience. All kinds of insights would blend and flourish in a fertile effervescence. A sensation of actuality and spiritual content would be born, like the rise of a wave or a musical phrase. To be full of one’s self, not in the sense of pride, but of enrichment, to be tormented by a sense of infinity, means to live so intensely that you feel you are about to die of life.” Emil M. Cioran from On the Heights of Despair Translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
