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As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.
The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.
The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.
Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.
Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.
As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.
Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.
Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.