"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Nationality, Ireland

"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

O. Henry, American Writer

Nationality, Climate, May, Weather

"I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years."

Jack Herer, American Activist

Nationality, Years

"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."

O. Henry, American Writer

Nationality, Citizenship, Country, Court, Nothing

"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Nationality, Ireland, Old

"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."

William Joyce, American Author

Nationality, End, Frogs, Spring, Summer

"I was a normal American nerd."

Jack Herer, American Activist

Nationality,

"French was my first language."

Bob Cousy, American Athlete

Nationality, First, Language

"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."

Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist

Nationality, African, Country, Court

"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

Nationality, Ireland, Now

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

Death

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Suicide

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

Death

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

Self-Awareness

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

Speech

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Delight

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."

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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."

"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

"I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years."

"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."

"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."

"I was a normal American nerd."

"French was my first language."

"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."

"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country."

"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."