Everything – Page 176 – A book of aphorisms
Apr 172017
 

The feeling that one has narrowly escaped punishment is the sign that it is preparing.

Apr 132017
 

The work of art is not the object, and not the experience of the object: it is the experience of having experienced it.

Apr 122017
 

The conquerors enslave the conquered, when the gap between them is small; when it is large, they exterminate them.

Apr 112017
 

Men first lie and cheat for sport, then for trinkets, and finally for great ends, having formed the habit.

Apr 102017
 

A suppressed idea mutates to ever more virulent forms, which are then invoked to justify its continued suppression.

Apr 072017
 

When we adhere to convention in appearance, we show that we care what others think; and we show that we care deeply when we depart from it.

Apr 062017
 

When you find yourself in a book, you lose the book.

Apr 052017
 

By the time you know all the answers you no longer believe them.