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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
Aphorist
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Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.
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A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
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Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
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Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
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The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
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The right time to die is never exactly now.
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A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.
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Self-reform is the only kind that works.
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All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.
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Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
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