The end is too deep
I finally received Emil Cioran 's book "The Trouble with Being Born" which is a collection of aphorisms. It is hard to swallow as a whole so I am approaching it sporadically and marking with small pencilled circles the aphorisms I think I understand and can relate to so I can later find them. I find many too pregnant with pessimism and nihilism and there are references to philosophers I only know by name (many of whom, starting from Aristotle, also get theirs). Cioran reminds me of someone who has always been able to see the matrix without choosing the red pill. He might have appreciated the idea of the movie (it came out in 1999 and he died in 1995). "The Fatalism was there from the very beginning, long before I had words for it," he says in an interview. In another one: "The mistake of normal healthy people is to think of death as something that arrives at the end. I discovered very young that death is not outside of life - it is inside it. Immanent. Ever...