Cioran and Time

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Isn't Cioran's concept of time fundamentally a variation of Nietzsche's doctrine of the Eternal Return?

Nietzsche (quoted from J.L. Borges):
"This slow spider dragging itself towards the light of the moon and that same moonlight, and you and I whispering at the gateway, whispering of eternal things, haven't we already coincided in the past? And won't we happen again on the long road, on this long tremulous road, won't we recur eternally?"

Cioran:
"All we can offer in excuse for Time is that in it we find some moments more profitable than others, accidents without consequence in an intolerable monotony of perplexities."

Everything that happens in the universe has happened before and is destined to happen again, preceded and followed every time by the same events. What is left for us are a few inconsequential escapes or accidents in an all-encompassing monotony. The last page of the book ends in weariness and resignation confronted with "an unforeseeable universe - where nonetheless everything repeats itself."