Asmus Tietchens – Eisgang / Dämmerattacke 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEuKVhqMrxs

cover text: Am allerletzten Ende wird von allen Idealen des Menschen nur er selbst, der nackte Mensch übrig bleiben. Längst wird er das Absolute, nicht aber sich selbst ausgemerzt haben. Erst dann werden die Ideale zerbröckeln und der Mensch mit sich selbst allein bleiben – von Angesicht zu Angesicht. – E.M. Cioran “Das Buch der Täuschungen”

I was thinking about LLMs, coding, and where our industry seems to be going, and I suddenly recalled an aphorism by E.M. Cioran:

“I gallivant through the days like a prostitute in a world without sidewalks”

Now I’m at the same time a bit more depressed, and a bit more bitterly and cynically smiling.

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“We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life... the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.”

~ Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

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“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

~ E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

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“Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.”

~ E. M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

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“To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.”

—E. M. Cioran, The Book of Delusions

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“I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”

—E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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“A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.”

—Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions

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