Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.
Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.
Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.
Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
Genius knows where the questions are hidden.
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
The prison is the state writ small.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
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