Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 20

• History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

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  Fall, History, Apocalypse

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• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

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  Life, Boredom, Resentment

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• We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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  Justice, Injustice

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• Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Giving

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• As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

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  Philosophy, Dinner, Eating

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• Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

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  Pain, Attention, Pay

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• The idealist regards facts as provisional.

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  Facts, Idealism, Idealist

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• Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

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  Passionate, Indecision, States

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• Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

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  Faith, Betrayal, Ambiguity

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• Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

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  Jealousy, Safety, Bored

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• I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

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  Jealousy, Stills

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• In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

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  Art, Dresses

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• Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.

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  Representation

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• Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

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  Smile, Past, Faces

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• Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

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  Metaphor, Convince

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• In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

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  World, Judgment, Conversation

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• Facts do not give advice.

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  Giving, Advice, Facts

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• The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

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  Romantic, Love Is, Romance

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• The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

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  Advice, Trouble

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• Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

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  Cities, Desert, Caves

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• The beginning sets the rules.

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• A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

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  Effort, Appearance, Absurdity

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• Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

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  Pain, Distance, Comedy

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• Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

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  Desire, Endure, Altruism

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• Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.

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  Congratulations, Self, Egotism

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