Emil Cioran Quotes
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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No one comes into our house and pushes us around.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
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The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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There's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven, except change his immigration policies.
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I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
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To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.