Emile M. Cioran Quotes | Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair,...

"Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity."

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I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

— Roxane Gay

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Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

— Alex Lemon

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