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My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#father #said #say #silly #silly thing

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#control #felt #had #i #mother

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

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

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

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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