Emil Cioran Quotes
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.
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The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.
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The powerful don't make revolutions.
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[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
