Emil Cioran Quotes
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
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I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
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When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.
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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
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There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.
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Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
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When something is not good, it's bad. Period
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I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.
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People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.
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My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
