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>”As for Russia, who can examine her past without feeling a thrill, a first-class frisson. A dim past, full of expectation, of subterranean anxiety—a past of inspired moles. The explosion of the Russians will make the nations tremble; already, they have introduced the Absolute into politics. That is the challenge they fling at a humanity gnawed by doubts and to which they will not fail to administer the coup de grace. If we no longer have much soul, they have enough and to spare. Close to their origins, to that affective universe in which the mind still clings to the soil, to flesh and blood, they feel what they think; their truths, like their mistakes, are sensations, stimulants, acts. In fact, they do not think, they erupt. Still at the stage where the intelligence neither attenuates nor dissolves obsessions, they are as ignorant of the harmful effects of reflection as of those extremities of consciousness when it becomes the agent of uprootedness and anemia. They can therefore get under way tranquilly enough. What have they to face, except a lymphatic world? Nothing in front of them, nothing living with which they can collide, no obstacle: was it not a Russian who first used, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the word “cemetery” apropos of the West? Soon they will arrive en masse to visit the remains. Their footsteps are already perceptible to sensitive ears. Who could oppose their advancing superstitions with even a simulacrum of certainty?”

>> No.21296824

>>21296816
is it just me or does he kind of remind you of eraser head

>> No.21296861
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>>21296824
They look nothing alike.

>> No.21296985

OP is Russian

Pathetic insecurity

>> No.21297023

>>21296985
Free bump

>> No.21297908
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It's strange to think that someone else is slowly and systematically reading through Cioran at the same slow pace I am. A few months from now it'll be posts about the little-discussed Drawn and Quartered, or Anathemas and Admirations. Whether it's me doing it, or the other guy/bot.

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>>21297908
I’m reading him and Kierkegaard while juggling Nietzsche on the side. I read them all non-chronologically.

>> No.21298028

>>21296824
They look exactly alike. I see it every time.

>> No.21299559

>>21296816
is it just me or does he kind of remind you of eraser head

>> No.21300432

bump

>> No.21300476

>>21296816
That prose is awful. Cioran is so overrated by you losers.

>> No.21300514

>>21298016
kino. I love kierkegaard and Cioran!!!!

>> No.21300536

>>21300476
lol @ this angloid

>> No.21300602

>>21296816
yeah, really worked great for Russia. I wish I could throw my life away for the next-best dictator, instead of living in a comfy and secure western way, sooo boring. And this Cioran guy is so based and edgy, he just doesnt give a damn, right guys?

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>yeah, really worked great for Russia. I wish I could throw my life away for the next-best dictator, instead of living in a comfy and secure western way, sooo boring. And this Cioran guy is so based and edgy, he just doesnt give a damn, right guys?