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" A blocked path also offers guidance. "
Guidance
Path
Also
" A blunt statement can be as false as any other. "
Blunt
Any
False
" Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. "
Does
Affection
Denounce
" After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. "
Silence
Mean
May
" After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. "
Ordinary
Success
Satisfied
" A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. "
Solitude
His
Reader
" A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. "
Many
Happy
Cats
" Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. "
Amazing
Race
Sex
" An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. "
Only
Academic
Understand
" An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie. "
Reason
No Reason
Lie
" A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places. "
Idea
Many
Changing
" Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. "
Art
Begins
Ends
" Art seduces, but does not exploit. "
Does
Exploit
Art
" A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. "
Change
More
Heart
" As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. "
Number
People
Equality
" At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. "
Great
Wisdom
Thirty
" Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. "
Bad
Likes
Friendship
" Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it. "
Pet
Admit
Cats
" Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. "
Approval
Children
Expect
" Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. "
Same
Get
Way
" City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. "
Most
People
City
" Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. "
Moment
Compassion
Rise
" Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. "
Never
Spent
Change
" Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. "
Consciousness
Time
Reprieve
" Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end. "
End
Conscious
Up
" Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is. "
See
Looks
Leap
" Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead. "
Mighty
Critic
Dead
" Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. "
Cruelty
Fear
Pity
" Cure for an obsession: get another one. "
Obsession
Another
Cure
" Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. "
Naive
Cynicism
Disappointments
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