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.
Emil Cioran
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Chet Baker
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Robert H. Schuller
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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
Jane Austen
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Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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When something is not good, it's bad. Period
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
So that I may leave this place and disappear.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
Mother Teresa
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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.
Emil Cioran
