Emil Cioran Quotes
When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.
Quotes to Explore
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.
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I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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You still find a great sense of possibility here, and I want to make sure that Arizona stays that way. I want us to be the welcoming, job-creating state we've been from the start, a place where everybody's got a chance.
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When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.
