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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#PensamientoAtropellado

No son los males violentos los que nos marcan, sino los males sordos, los insistentes, los tolerables, aquellos que forman parte de nuestra rutina y nos minan tan meticulosamente como el Tiempo.

#EseMalditoYo
AVEUX ET ANATHÈMES
1987

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