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Life is what it makes you.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.
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The realism of failure, the romance of success.
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Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
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The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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Truth is a necessary phantom.
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A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
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Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
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