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The sun cares nothing for illumination.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Sun
Care
Nothing
Illumination
Cares

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Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
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The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
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Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.
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Passion impels our deeds ideology supplies the explanations.
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The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.
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An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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