If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremismโI don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
Emile M. CioranTo write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?
Emile M. Cioran