When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. - Emil Cioran

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

"The most interesting aspect of suffering is the sufferer's belief in its absoluteness. He believes he has a monopoly on suffering. I think that I alone suffer, that I alone have the right to suffer, although I also realize that there are modalities of suffering more terrible than mine, pieces of flesh falling from the bones, the body crumbling under one's very eyes, monstrous, criminal , shameful sufferings. One asks oneself, How can this be, and if it be, how can one still speak of finality and other such old wives' tales? Suffering moves me so much that I lose all my courage. I lose heart because I do not understand why there is suffering in the world.", in essay: the monopoly of suffering

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?