Emil Cioran Quotes
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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‘What you could do with is a nice strong cup of tea, sir. I’ll tell the kuki to make you one.’ ‘Does it really do any good, Nabby? (That was better.) ‘I’ve tried every damn thing.’....
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One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief. If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.
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My music is like my freedom space.
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There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.
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I overdramatize.
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
