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The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.
A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.
Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.
Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.
The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies.
Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.
Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.
I create my social existence by earning and spending.
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
The writer considers sayability before anything else.
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.
Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.
To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.