Lara

“The West: a sweet-smelling rottenness, a perfumed corpse.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth's surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion...Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“All great events have been set in motion by madmen, by mediocre madmen. Which will be true, we may be sure, of the "end of the world" itself.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“When, getting too used to ourselves, we begin to loathe ourselves, we soon realize that we are worse off, that self-hatred actually strengthens self-attachment.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born