Emil Cioran Quotes
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Liebende … wenn ihr einer dem andern euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk: o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.
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Dear Senator Leahy, thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
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I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
