Reminds me of an excerpt from Cioran's The Temptation to Exist: "Only the illiterate have given me that frisson of being which indicates the presence of truth.

Reminds me of an excerpt from Cioran's The Temptation to Exist: "Only the illiterate have given me that frisson of being which indicates the presence of truth. Carpathian shepherds have made a much deeper impression upon me than the professors of Germany, the wits of Paris. I have seen Spanish beggars, and I should like to have been their hagiographer."