"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

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"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist

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"I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not."

Josie Maran, American Model

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

Lie, Consciousness, Potential, Waking

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."

James Daly, American Actor

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"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."

Timothy Geithner, American Public Servant

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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

Lie, Man

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

Lie, Guilt, Punishment, Satisfaction

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Ken Kesey, American Author

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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

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

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"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

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"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

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

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."

"I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not."

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."

"Weaklings must lie."

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

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

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

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

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."

"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

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

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."