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Into Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
- The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
- Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
- The universal view melts things into a blur.
- Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but…
- Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
- Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
- As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become…
- What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
- I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
- The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes…
- I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
- How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
- A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together,…
- Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my…
- The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong