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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
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Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
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A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
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Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
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Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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Magic lives in curves, not angles.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
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Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
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Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
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As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
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