The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
More from Emile Cioran
Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.
Permalink to quote #99 Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Permalink to quote #101 Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
Permalink to quote #98