Saturday, June 20, 2020

Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself

 Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself
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“The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths.”


“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster,” James Baldwin wrote in a staggeringly prescient piece from 1953.

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