Monday, July 04, 2016

 

Fruit of Spiritual Reading

E.M. Cioran (1911-1995), The New Gods, tr. Richard Howard (1974; rpt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), p. 114:
When I spend days and days among texts concerned with nothing but serenity, contemplation, and ascesis, I am filled with a longing to rush out into the street and break the skull of the first person I meet.

Quand je passe des jours et des jours au milieu de textes où il n'est question que de sérénité, de contemplation et de dépouillement, l'envie me prend de sortir dans la rue et de casser la gueule au premier passant.



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