"When you are born with a strong presentiment of death, life advances toward death in reverse... you die, then you live, suffer, and finally are born.

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Why do the heights require the suppression of appetite?

Why do poets, musicians, mystics and saints use askesis in various ways?

Voluntary hunger is a road to heaven."

—Emil Cioran, Tears & Saints

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