Emil Cioran Quotes
We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.
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I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
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I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
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They made you think that, what you need is what they sellin',Made you think that buying is rebelling.
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When you call me that, smile!
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I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
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It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.
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I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.
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We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.
