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Publish in haste and repent at leisure.
Insecurity is not just a state of mind.
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.
Malice is always authentic and sincere.
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Hatred makes me energetic, but confused.
In love as in art, good technique helps.
Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.
Everyone fears and courts his own demon.
Music dissolves the straight and narrow.
Reason cannot break out of its own loop.
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.
Self-reform is the only kind that works.
Shaw writes as if it were always midday.
As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.
Paradox likes contradictions with exits.
Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.
Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.
Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.
Indifference creates an artificial peace.
The present necessarily betrays the past.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.
Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.
The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
As night falls, every joy glows brighter.
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
Everything changes as it is written down.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.
I may forget my dignity, but you may not.
I know God exits, but I don't know where.
A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
To be sexy, nudes need a little underwear.
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
Originality is in the eye of the beholder.
Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.
Successful innovations become conventions.
Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.