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Mason Cooley

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Indifference creates an artificial peace.
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
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The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
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The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
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Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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