Emil Cioran Quotes
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emil Cioran
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
Gary Lineker
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Harold Kushner
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
Rakul Preet Singh
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
A. R. Rahman
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
Zoe Kravitz
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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard
