Emil Cioran Quotes

Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

Emil Cioran

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

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• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  

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• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

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  • Happy
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• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

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• I don't eat any red meat.

  

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• Tech is all about building human connections.

  

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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  • People
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• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

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• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

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• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

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• It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.

  

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• It Jamaat-e-Islami is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

  

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• I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.

  

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• Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • God
  • Tears