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

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
Truth

"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
Men

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
Time

"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
Chaos

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
Being

"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
God

"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."
Nature

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
Men

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
Poetry

"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."
Time
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