"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

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Emile M. Cioran

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“The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.”
“To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.”
“If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.”
“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.415, W. W. Norton & Company
“We see images of people being beheaded on TV. That's not a thing that you see all the time. That's a different kind of scary. Unfortunately, some of the scary stuff is political, and that's a change from our past.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I am Christian from when I was little. Because of the politics in Spain, everybody must be Christian by law. But I'm not a real big believer. I believe in people. I believe in life. But not especially in Catholics or priests or whatever.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”
“Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.”

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