Emil Cioran Quotes
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
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Silence is a text easy to misread.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.
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Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
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On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.
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I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.
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We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.
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Too much emotion is like none at all.
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A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
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For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
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What this also suggests, intriguingly, is that the task of translating or writing literary novels cannot be broken into parts and done by a succession of different humans either—not by wikis, nor crowdsourcing, nor ghostwriters. Stability of point of view and consistency of style are too important. What’s truly strange, then, is the fact that we do seem to make a lot of art this way
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.
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Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.
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We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
