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The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say.
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
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Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.
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An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
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An aphorism is a truth set apart for its pointedness and excellence.
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An aphorism is a name but every name can take on the figure of aphorism.
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I've always felt aphorisms as reminders, gongs-in-words.
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An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
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Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.
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An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
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For the aphorist, I think, seeing something and saying something are the same thing.
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You don't go to the ass; you go to the head.
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An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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Aphorism: what is worth quoting from the soul's dialogue with itself.
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The fragment, like a fraction, reminds us of its foundation in totality.
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An aphorism is a many-faceted observation: speculative and not necessarily witty.
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Beware of cultivating this delicate art.
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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Behind every aphoristic assertion there should be the watermark of a question.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Aphorisms are rogue ideas.
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An aphorism is not an argument; it is too well-bred for that.
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Aphoristic thinking is impatient thinking
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An aphorism is an audacity.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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A cage went in search of a bird.
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From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.
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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
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