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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I'm a '90s baby.
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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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Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.
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I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.
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In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
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It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.
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No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
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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.
