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  • A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from... More
  • A bent fate: much loved, but not in the way he liked. More
  • A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. More
  • A blocked path also offers guidance. More
  • A blunt statement can be as false as any other. More
  • A budget takes the fun out of money. More
  • A crisis unmasks everyone. More
  • A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes. More
  • A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of... More
  • A dirty mind is a rich inner resource. More
  • A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city. More
  • A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time. More
  • A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming. More
  • A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason. More
  • A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. More
  • A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to... More
  • A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. More
  • A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction. More
  • A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour’s worth leaves us stupefied. More
  • A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one. More
  • A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear. More
  • A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up. More
  • A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress. More
  • A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time. More
  • A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious. More
  • A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places. More
  • A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. More
  • A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable. More
  • A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. More
  • A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper. More
  • A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. More
  • A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one. More
  • A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel. More
  • A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth... More
  • A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. More
  • A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than... More
  • A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous. More
  • A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself. More
  • A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time. More
  • A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as “rewarding.” More
  • A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. More
  • A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction. More
  • A: Do you want to know what the future holds for you? B: (pause) Nes! Yo! More
  • A: Everything changes. B: But not enough. More
  • A: I am disappointed in you. B: But that’s the way I am. A: That’s why I am disappointed. More
  • A: Let’s praise one another. B: You go first. More
  • A: Spontaneity is wonderful. B: Who cleans up afterwards? More
  • A: What is the meaning of life? B: I know, but I won’t tell you. More
  • A: You are afraid of intimacy. B: I have seen your claws and sharp teeth. More
  • A: You have never forgotten a grievance or remembered a favor. B: What favor? More
  • A: You have offended me. B: Yes. More
  • A: Your friendship has become a burden. B: Do you prefer to be affronted by my indifference? More
  • A: You’re making me feel guilty. B: You are guilty. More
  • A: “I forgive you.” B: “For what?” More
  • A: “Life is a sacrifice.” B: “You go first.” More
  • A: “Why did you do that?”
    B: “Who knows why anybody does anything?” More
  • A: “You must give me another proof of your devotion.”
    B: “You would be less trouble as... More
  • Absorbed in my role, I forget where I am going. More
  • Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. More
  • Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you. More
  • Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods. More
  • Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives! More
  • Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long. More
  • Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. More
  • Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. More
  • After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque. More
  • After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. More
  • After an argument, silence may mean acceptance—or the continuation of resistance by other means. More
  • After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. More
  • After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. More
  • After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. More
  • After rejection—misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere. More
  • After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. More
  • After some years, the elusive lady ran out of people to elude. More
  • After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor... More
  • Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not... More
  • Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet. More
  • Age: I go slower as time goes faster. More
  • Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention. More
  • Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it. More
  • All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not. More
  • All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. More
  • All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria. More
  • Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again. More
  • Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons. More
  • Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue. More
  • Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires. More
  • Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated. More
  • Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear. More
  • Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom. More
  • Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. More
  • Alzheimer’s usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress. More
  • Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice. More
  • Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create... More
  • An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one... More
  • An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence. More
  • An ardent lover often makes a cold friend. More
  • An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it. More
  • An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies. More
  • An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend. More
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