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Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.
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The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
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Beggars market their incapacity.
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Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
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The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
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Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.
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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
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Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.
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Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
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Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.
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To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.
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Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
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I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
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In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
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Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
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I know God exits, but I don't know where.
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Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
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Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
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