/lit/ - Literature

>We generally find it hard to understand that some of us must go mad. But sliding into chaos, where moments of lucidity are like short flashes of lightning, is an inexorable fatality. Inspired pages of absolute lyricism, in which you are the prisoner of a total drunkenness of being, can only be written in a state of such exalted nervous tension that any return to equilibrium is an illusion.

Is the only way to write something truly original to go mad?

>>3266143
>i can already tell this is the edgiest book ever written

You're absolutely right. Cioran is a good stylist and is pretty funny, but he's a total windbag. Look at this edgy motherfucker, look!

I am looking for an equivalent of #bookz for books written in French. Or any database for francophone pdf. thanks

Is it just me or is this guy a massive windbag?

Hey /lit/.
What can you say about Emil Cioran?

>>2787093
Humanity, then, must be extinguished.

Why is it that virtually all modern philosophers aren't nihilistic determinists like the majority of /lit/ is?
I mean a few are nihilists but they aren't full blown doomlords like a lot of you are.

Is it because nihilism and determinism are....... obviously (to a smart philosopher of course) wrong?

>>2707120
Are you a bit of a Cioran expert? I've been wanting to get into him but I've no idea where to start.

>>2687057
>core of well-being
>other vague hippy bullshit
>mfw

I've heard Cioran killed more people than Breivik.

Cioran. That's it.

>>2585879
Saved this so hard I think I broke my finger

<- This nigga can put the Übermensch on prozac

Cioran and Beckett were friends. And he's several billion times more readable than Badiou, Deleuze, etc.

orange juice and
string.
funny thing, you know
to go without your towel
although they bring
a sign or ring
to
those who dabble
in the dark.

"It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

This thread is a fucking trainwreck.

Read Cioran, OP.

>>1559826
The appetite for suffering and ecstasy displayed by a saint is an expression of a deep will to power.

mai husbando

"It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

>>1256532
"Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself; I would have shared the dignity of the abandoned gods, defending them against the insidious crosses, the invasion of servants and martyrs, and would have spent my nights seeking repose in the dementia and debauchery of the Caesars. As an expert in disenchantment, I would have riddled the new zeals with all the arrows of dissolute wisdom — with courtesans, in skeptical brothels, or in circuses with lavish forms of cruelty. I would have filled my thinking with vice and blood to stretch logic to unheard of dimensions, as large as worlds that are dying."

That's the best Cioran quote.

"It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Hobble your broken old ass home, Russell.

Pic is related to your quest, OP. Start with "A Short History of Decay".

>>1118034
Nice hair bro.