“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
History and Utopia (1960)
“Doutbless, revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim, or else we are tangled in the subtleties of remorse; so vengeance too has its venom, though it comes closer to what we are, to what we feel, to the very law of the self; it is also healthier than magnanimity. The Furies were held to antedate the gods, Zeus included. Vengeance before Divinity! This is the Major intuition of ancient mythology.”
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Emil M. Cioran
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History and Utopia
p. 70. https://books.google.com/books?id=5DuCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70
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