Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.
If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.
Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.
In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.
Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.
Facts do not give advice.
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
The beginning sets the rules.
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.
Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
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