29.11.2023 E. M. Cioran on the value of existence

“Existence is legitimate and valuable only if we are capable of discerning, at whatever level, even that of the infinitesimal, the presence of the irreplaceable. If we fail, we reduce the spectacle of process to a series of equivalences and simulacra, to a play of appearances against a background of identity.”

-Anathemas and Admirations, pg. 295