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Word Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
- Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
- To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
- Word - that invisible dagger.
- To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
- Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a…
- Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a…
- At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else,…
More Word Quotes
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach