"By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?"

-- Emile M. Cioran

#Suicide Quotes #Aberration Quotes #Normal Quotes

“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
“Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.”
“The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.”
“In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.”
“It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.142, Simon and Schuster
“The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.”
“The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence.”
“In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.”

Source : "Retail therapists" by Fiona Neill, The Times, July 14, 2007.

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