Emil Cioran Quotes
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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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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But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.
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I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.
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I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.
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That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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It wasn't as bad as you would have thought ... Sometimes things went on that wouldn't happen in other games. (But) for the most part we kept it clean on both sides, until the end there.
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I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
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Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.
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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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Je est un autre.
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
