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In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.
The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.
Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.
Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.
I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.
The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.