Emil Cioran Quotes
'What is truth?' is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to 'How to endure life?' And even this one pales beside the next: 'How to endure oneself?' - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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For the robust, an error is information.
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How far do we owe loyalty to our creators’ dream? When have we earned the right to dream for ourselves?
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Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.
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'What is truth?' is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to 'How to endure life?' And even this one pales beside the next: 'How to endure oneself?' - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer.
