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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Keeps
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Idea
Ideas
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
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Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
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Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
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At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
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When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.
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What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
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Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
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The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.
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Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
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Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
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When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
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When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
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Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
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Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.
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