Carlos Butler

“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

“I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks.”
― Emil Cioran

“For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.”
― Emil Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

“I’ve never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn’t been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.”
― Emil Cioran