Tears and Saints
Tears and Saints By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself…
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Tears and Saints
By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chronicler of these saints' falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God's insomniacs." Inspired by Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran "searched for the origin of tears." He asked himself if saints could be "the sources of tears' better light." "Who can tell?" he wrote in the first paragraph of this book, first published in Romania in 1937. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints.
Tears did not enter the world through the saints; but without them we would never have known that we cry because we long for a lost paradise." By "To be sure, tears are their trace.
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