Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without t… - Emil Cioran

When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.

It is difficult, it is impossible to believe that the Good Lord — "Our Father" — had a hand in the scandal of creation. Everything suggests that He took no part in it, that it proceeds from a god without scruples, a feculent god. Goodness does not create, lacking imagination; it takes imagination to put together a world, however botched. At the very least, there must be a mixture of good and evil in order to produce an action or a work.

For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.