Emil Cioran Quotes

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emil Cioran

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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

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• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
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• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
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• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
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• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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  • Experience
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• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Kind
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• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
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• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Getting
  • Awards
  • Presents

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Hand
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• I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Up
  • Why
  • Running

• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Soul
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  • Destiny

• Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Freedom