Emil Cioran Quotes
Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
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Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.
