Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Cioran 2

Although life for me is torture, I cannot renounce it, because I do not believe in the
absolute values in whose name I would sacrifice myself. If I were
to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and
why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irra-
tional character of life which maintains itself without reason.

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It resembles the last stage of initiation in the
Egyptian mysteries when, instead of the ultimate knowledge,
one is told, "Osiris is a black divinity." The absolute remains un-lovable.

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