Cioran: More Aphorisms


     One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.
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     "My children, salt comes from water, and if it comes in contact with water, it dissolves and vanishes. In the same way, the monk is born of woman, and if he approaches a woman, he dissolves and ceases to be a monk." This Jean Moschus, in the seventh century, seems to have understood better than either Strindberg or Weininger the danger already pointed out in Genesis.
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     Every life is the story of a collapse. If biographies are so fascinating, it is because the heroes, and the cowards quite as much, strive to innovate in the art of debacle.
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     Each of us clings as best he can to his unlucky star.   
 

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