Every work turns against the author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sacrifices every gift and talent escapes: released from his humanity, he may lodge himself in Being.
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—Cioran
One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.
