Aphorisms
“I blew my brains out years ago that’s why I’m so open
minded.”
“I can now think clearly because life has thrown all kinds
of stones at me, many of which hit me often, until I
realized that you don’t look stupid by running away at
times, the real stupidity is standing in the way of a stone
coming your way. Run and look like a fool now, than look
like a fool later!”
“I can only show you the door. You’re the one who has to
walk through it.”
“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I
know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there -
that is living.”
“I can’t think of anything I’d rather anticipate than have
right away. Can you? Death comes to mind.”
“I cannot simply take things how they are without
believing that they can be better.”
“I cannot swim against the flow of water, otherwise I will
get tired and be swept away.”
“I complained because I didn’t have shoes until I saw
someone without feet.”
“I constantly go through my list of people I associate with
and always find a few names to mark through.”
“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad;
neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor
an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner,
taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless
consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously
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