Emil Cioran Quotes
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Quotes to Explore
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
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So, then, even the dust is a resting-place of hope for the people of God.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
