/lit/ - Literature

>>20959711
>Universal history: history of Evil. Take away the disasters from human evolution and you might as well conceive of nature without seasons. If you have not contributed to a catastrophe, you will vanish without a trace. We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. “I never made anyone suffer!"—an exclamation forever alien to a creature of flesh and blood. When we feel enthusiasm for a character of the past, or the present, we unconsciously ask ourselves: “For how many people was he the cause of disaster?” Who knows if each of us doesn’t aspire to the privilege of killing all his kind? But this privilege is assigned to very few, and never integrally: this restriction alone explains why the earth is still inhabited. Indirect murderers, we constitute an inert mass, a multitude of objects confronting Time’s true subjects, the great criminals who came to something.
But we can take comfort: our descendants, remote or immediate, will avenge us. For it is not difficult to imagine the moment when men will cut each other’s throats out of disgust with themselves, when Ennui will get the best of their prejudices and their diffidences, when they will run out into the street to slake their thirst for blood, and when the destructive dream prolonged for so many generations will become the universal reality. . . .

Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Whole essay for the context

>>20859792
He was solitary virgin and a faggot

>He [Nietzsche] demolished so many idols only to replace them with others: a false iconoclast, with adolescent aspects and a certain virginity, a certain innocence inherent in his solitary’s career. He observed men only from a distance. Had he come closer, he could have neither conceived nor promulgated the superman, that preposterous, laughable, even grotesque chimera, a crotchet which could occur only to a mind without time to age, to know the long serene disgust of detachment.

>What I consider his most authentic work is his letters, because in them he’s truthful, while in his other work he’s prisoner to his vision. In his letters one sees that he’s just a poor guy, that he’s ill, exactly the opposite of everything he claimed.

Emil Cioran on Nietzsche

>>20733899
Beware of that tall Jewess

>>19569114
He was a literal fascist in his youth

>>19152998
He called Codreanu a fucking retard. And regretted the fanaticism of his youth. If you read his first two books I feels like Cioran betrayed himself by taking part in politics.

Here's a rare Cioran

>>18650575
Cioran is a chad, even though he was larping as a loser

>>18650580
Camus' absurdism is literally a normie-tier version of stoicism. It is full of positive and life-affirming conclusions; the "pessimist" part of his philosophy is only needed for some cheap and puffed-up poetry.