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A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

A budget takes the fun out of money.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.