02.06.2023 E. M. Cioran on writing

“It is a withering process to follow a doctrine, a belief, a system - for a writer especially; unless he lives, as often happens, in contradiction with the ideas to which he appeals. This contradiction, or this treason, stimulates him and keeps him in a state of insecurity, embarrassment, shame - conditions favourable to production.”

-The Trouble with Being Born, pg. 262