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“The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to a form of reality to reality’s detriment.”
― Emil Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

“Lao-tse, reduced to a few texts, is not more naive than we who have read everything. Profundity is independent of knowledge. We translate to other levels the revelations of the ages, or we exploit original intuitions by the latest acquisitions of thought. Thus Hegel is a Heraclitus who has read Kant; and our Ennui is an affective Eleaticism, the fiction of diversity unmasked and exposed to the heart...”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“The prevailing sentiment now is disillusion, the summa of our tainted dreams. And if we have not even the resource of believing in the virtues of destruction, it is because we are all secularized anarchists today and have understood not only their urgency but also their uselessness.”
― Emil M. Cioran, History and Utopia

“Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men