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My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Aspiration
Merit
Luck
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Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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The prison is the state writ small.
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The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
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Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?
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When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
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Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
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Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
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Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.
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