Emil Cioran Quotes
We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
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There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.
