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I trust you because I need you.
Only death goes deeper than sex.
Fear regulates. Appetite impels.
Methodology is applied ideology.
Beggars market their incapacity.
Money: power at its most liquid.
Happiness is often hard-hearted.
Keep your lies short and simple.
The neuroses parody the virtues.
Later is always my first choice.
Truth usually stammers at first.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
While there's life, there's fear.
Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Reading civilized the inner life.
God improvises. Man systematizes.
Only death rescues us from dying.
Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Like love, grief fades in and out.
Sacred texts always offend reason.
Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
We understand through resemblance.
Jokes are unanswerable objections.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Memory is imagination pinned down.
Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
Money comes to life as it is spent.
The prison is the state writ small.
Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
Sensuality takes planning and work.
Swindlers are notoriously gullible.
Many gloat over their own troubles.
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
My nostalgia is for the impossible.
Self-esteem is not based on itself.
Some crave grief like strong drink.
A blocked path also offers guidance.
A budget takes the fun out of money.
The powerless worship Luck and Fate.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
Regret leads to overeating and naps.
Never try to leap from a standstill.
Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.