Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
I trust you because I need you.
Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.
Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.
Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.
Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.
Keep your lies short and simple.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
Our troubles keep us going.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.
Funerals prove that someone is really gone.
As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.
I put second things first, and then worry about first things.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
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