"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself."

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Source : Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

Emile M. Cioran

#Being Yourself Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there, but the rest of us didn't know anything about her. It's just so typical of Canadians that we know Rosa Parks, in that "bad country to the south of us" - they needed this lovely, courageous woman to sit down in the front of the bus - but we wouldn't know ours, because of course we "don't have racism in Canada."”

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“Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.”
“I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.”

Source : Song: Mean Mean Woman, Album: Simply the Truth
“Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.”
“John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.”
“I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.”
“Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice (of art itself). More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfilment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art. (1921/23”
“Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.”

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