Emil Cioran Quotes

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Emil Cioran

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• The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

  

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• If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

  

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Development
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• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

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• You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

  

  Majel Barrett
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• Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Books
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• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
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• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • She
  • Peace

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
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• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Think

• Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
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• It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.

  

  Calvin Coolidge

• There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Learning

• I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.

  

  Bonnie McKee
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• Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

  

  Fritz Haber

• It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Passion
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  • Epic

• We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • World
  • Why
  • Energy

• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth

• If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
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• Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Job
  • President
  • Problems

• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Decision
  • Exist
  • Futility