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Quotes by Romanian Authors
"Speaking doesn t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak."
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you."
"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."
"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
"Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq."
"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."
"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed."
"I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me."
"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."
"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
"I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians."
"We inhabit a language rather than a country."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout."
"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
"I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers."
"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one."
"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
"We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune."
"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."
"The place where "me & I" does not exist - Leadership."
"Leaders pull the trigger, but the "shot" belongs to you."
"Don t make people feel necessarily happy. Make them feel useful."
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