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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Literature

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Love begins with an image lust with a sensation.
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The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.
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Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
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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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Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
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Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
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The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
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The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
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With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
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Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.
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The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
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I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.
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Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
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Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.
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Reading civilized the inner life.
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Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.
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Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
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Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
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The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?
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My self-absorption warms me yours boils me.
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