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"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy."
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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 well."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
Life

"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it."
Death

"People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation."
Love

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
Man

"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
Thought

"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it."
Life

"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
Success

"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."
Death

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
Creativity

"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim."
War
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