Spencer Szwalbenest

“As a result of man's sins, corruption is increased and incorporated into both man and the world. This in turn causes God's Light to be increasingly retracted and hidden. The more this corruption is cleansed, on the other hand, and the more people are purified of it, the more God's Light is once again revealed, step by step.”
― Moshe Chayim Luzzatto, The Way of God and An Essay on Fundamentals

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
― Emil Cioran

“Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits