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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 bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."

"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy."

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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"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."

"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."

"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight."

"Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long."

"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."

"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."
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