Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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My mission is to kill time and its mission is to kill me in turn. It is good among assassins.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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There is no work that does not turn against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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Nature, seeking a formula to satisfy everyone, finally chose death, which, as expected, has satisfied no one.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live, the only one, actually.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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It is not the violent evils that mark us, but the silent, the insistent, the tolerable ones, those that are part of our routine and meticulously undermine us like time.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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Accepting ourselves as we are: the only way to avoid bitterness. When we 'reject ourselves,' instead of paying for it ourselves, we pay with others, and we only segregate bile.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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After certain experiences, we should change our name, since we are no longer the same.

Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great

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He who is no better than others is not worthy to rule over them.

Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great

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Brevity is the soul of wit. Speaking excessively suggests desperation on the part of the leader.

Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

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Literature is the art of writing something that is read twice; journalism, the art of writing something that is read once.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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To confront, always confront, is the way to solve the problem. Confront it!