Sep 3, 2024
Every truth gives a feeling of liberation at the moment it is discovered; then it becomes a chain. The same can be said of a god; at the beginning, when one clings to it, one breathes, then one suffocates. In all, only the beginning and the end deserve attention; both represent a moment of freedom: Doing and undoing, both are movements. The path towards being and the path out of being; that is “life,” that is freedom. But the state of being is a hindrance.
Notebooks Emil Cioran