“Sainthood: to be beyond everything, but in and with love. How monotonous the life of saints, because they can only be saints.

Sainthood: existence lived in one single absolute dimension. Saints can also hear the voices of the world; but they only speak of the pains that have become love; these are the voices of a single world. Let me turn to the music in which the worlds speak, the other worlds...”

— E. M. Cioran, "The Book of Delusions" (1936)