“ Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.
Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, larger phenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease of time; life, again, a disease of matter.
Then what is normal, what is healthy? ”
 Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (1973). copy citation