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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
While there's life, there's fear.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
The man in the street is always a stranger.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Rereading, we find a new book.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Even boredom has its crises.
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
The desire to be significant casts a pall.
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.
A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.
Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
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