The World Motivation
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
“Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.”
— Emil Cioran · Accompany
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.
I grew up watching film shootings as I always accompanied my father during my holidays. So I was not scared about facing the camera nor did I go to any acting classes.
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.