Emil Cioran Quotes
I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
Quotes to Explore
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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The more unsettling the more I feel at home.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
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French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.
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The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
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In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
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I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
