"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."

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Source : Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

Emile M. Cioran

#Morning Quotes #Night Quotes #Endure Quotes

“He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.”
“Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.”
“I know nothing about letting go.”
“The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.”
“I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.”
“Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”

Source : Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”
“There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.”
“Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.”

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