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Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#did #documentary #holiday #i #make

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#misconception #must #others #ourselves #read

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#better #endure #giving #moving #name

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#marvel #nation #nothing #offer #once

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #deadly #disease #ever #recovers

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every man #evil #little #man #more

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#nothing #proves #than