Emil Cioran Quotes
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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Great men marry great women.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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Play is a phenomenon of nature and has directed the course of the world from the beginning of time: the formation of matter, its organization into living structures as well as the social behavior of man.
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It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.
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We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.
