Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 54

• Self-esteem is not based on itself.

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  Self Esteem, Self, Esteem

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• Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

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  Moving, Commitment, Detachment

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• Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

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  Creativity, Substitutes, Competence

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• Couples who come to understand one another often part.

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  Couple

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• Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

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  Light, Cynicism, Conclusion

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• As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

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  Cities, Pavement, Cold

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• Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

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  Country, Rural Life, Gone

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• The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

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  Vacation, History, Promise

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• It is not confused. We are.

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  Confused, Confusion

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• Pity drowns in numbers.

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  Numbers, Pity

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• The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

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  Important, Asks

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• Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Futility, Subjects

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• Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

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  Kindness, Fear, Kind

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• Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

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  Sulking, Resentment, Silent

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• I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

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  Faults, Ashamed, Criticize

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• I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.

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  Faults, Use, Tolerate

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• Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

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  Money, Begging, Beggar

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• Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

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  Giving, Existence, Begging

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• When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

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  Nasty, Failing, Courtesy

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• Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

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  Self, Self Love, Support

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• A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

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  Beautiful, Envy, Peers

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• Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

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  Envy, Laughing, Sound

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• After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

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  Envy, Temples, Glory

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• Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

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  Simplicity, Strict

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• Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

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  Cows, Milk, Kicks

  "City Aphorisms: Eleventh Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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