"Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?"

--

Emile M. Cioran

“On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.”
“Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.”
“Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.”
“When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.”
“You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.”
“Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.”

Source : New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1964.
“For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.”
“If I drop dead tomorrow, at least Iâ€™ll know I died in good health.”

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