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The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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I know God exits, but I don't know where.
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Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
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Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
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Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
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Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
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The present necessarily betrays the past.
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The realism of failure, the romance of success.
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Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
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I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
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Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
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Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
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Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.
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A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
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