Cioran XXII

Set XXII of Cioran “translations,” all twenty-two [about 25,000 words] should now appear in a special “tab”:

This post covers March 12 1969 — June 9 1969.

March 12 1969

Cain needed somewhere he could lick his wounds. So he invented the city —

There is only one “historical question”: did you betray the right people at the right time?

If Hegel had replaced all his abstractions with “die Untreue” [betrayal] —

Spanish sadness, Argentine sadness, Hungarian sadness, Sudanese sadness, highest sadness, lowest sadness, sadness of every latitude, sadness of a Goddess, sadness of a rock.

Unhappiness, for me, is a superstition, a dream —

April 9 1969