Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? - Emil Cioran

Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.

We should, out of decency, choose for ourselves the moment to disappear.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.