Emil Cioran Quotes
If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emil Cioran
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup
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Magnus Scheving
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
Patrick Stewart
Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
Hans Blix
As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.
William James
A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.
F. C. S. Schiller
But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
Robert Falcon Scott
If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emil Cioran