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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in hi ...
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
It was as lovely a summer as those that precede wars.
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
He was as erratic but as inevitable as the weather.
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
While we were doing it, everything seemed possible, I must say. But that is the illusion of the act. Now I remember how everything ...
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
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