Emil Cioran Quotes
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
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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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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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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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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
