Emil Cioran Quotes

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Emil Cioran

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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

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• Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

  

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• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

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• By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

  

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• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

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• 'Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...''(The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, 'Every hotel has Holy Bibles.')

  

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• I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  

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• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

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• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

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• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
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• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
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• So in the Libyan fable it is toldThat once an eagle, stricken with a dart,Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,'With our own feathers, not by others' hands,Are we now smitten.'

  

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• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

  

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• No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  

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• I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

  

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• Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

  

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  

  Aldous Huxley
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• I really do work in solitude.

  

  Donna Tartt
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• There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

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• If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • Good
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• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  

  William Golding
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• Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Solitude