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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
Illumination
Cares
Sun
Care
Nothing

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Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.
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Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.
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Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.
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Boast quietly, with decorum.
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Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.
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For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
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Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
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Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
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In love, self-love is always at risk.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.
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Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
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Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.
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Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
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Beggars market their incapacity.
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The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
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Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.
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