Enoch

“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that they are molded of the same clay as their oppressors.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“The Empire was falling, the Barbarians were on the move.... What was to be done, except to escape the age? Happy moment, when there is still somewhere to go, when the empty places were accessible and welcoming! We have been dispossessed of everything, even the desert.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“What a woman tells her lover in desire
should be written out on air & running water.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator