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Aphorisms Eight
August 5, 2009, 5:33 pm
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  1. Having a hidden agenda is fine, as long as it isn’t hidden from oneself.
  2. What feminism has done is double the number of people who can tyrannize over others.
  3. To make solitude as compelling as possible, dress her up as the whore of your choice.
  4. One should have a healthy fear for the gods, because if you get too close to them, they destroy you.  Flirting with them without getting too close is madness.  Ignoring them is boredom and mediocrity.  Destruction, madness, mediocrity—this is the sum of human choice.
  5. There’s only one true ingredient and elixir of art.  Death.  Death’s home, though, has moved from war to love and those who would create the art of the future must live in love’s endless deaths to ply their dark trade.
  6. A simple three-rung hierarchy exists to art:  at the bottom are the crooners, those who please the apes with sentimental clichés (Sinatra); in the middle are the elitists, who only please other elitists and those who like to think of themselves as elitists (Spinoza); at the top are those who appeal equally to the crooners and elitists while equally making fun of both (Shakespeare)—they are the god-men, the modern Christs who bridge heaven and hell with earth.
  7. Once one realizes hate is a necessary emotion and that those one hates (whether intimate or distant) are essential to one’s identity, then one welcomes the hate with a certain acceptance, an acceptance we might call love, but a love deeper than what we normally call love.
  8. Copulation in itself is tedious and so is only interesting to tedious minds; interesting minds don’t avoid copulation, but their fascination in it is primarily the accoutrements leading to and away from it.  (What is true of copulation is exponentially more true for the orgasm.)
  9. What was once nature has become technology, what was once God has become art.  All philosophy, history, religion–the entire future–is contained in this meditation.
  10. When one suffers, one increases one’s suffering by focusing on the suffering.  Rather, focus on death.  Suffering leads to suffering, but death leads to life.
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Aphorisms Seven
July 23, 2009, 1:07 am
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  1. Nature drives us to society, society drives us to nature.
  2. Time always forgives; the present never does.
  3. People no longer inhabit space, they inhabit movement.
  4. Some people are only memorable because they’re so forgettable.
  5. Only decisions made in passion are of any import.
  6. Man has always expected that he would save the world.  But he has always expected that woman would save him.
  7. Most of what is called literature is simply reality with adjectives.
  8. Comfort makes me more uncomfortable than discomfort.
  9. Unity is not evil, but striving for unity is.
  10. Knowledge demands silence, but we must decline.
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Aphorisms Six
July 8, 2009, 11:46 pm
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  1. To be sexually active is to engage in shared suffering.  To be celibate is to hold suffering within oneself.
  2. Men are more subtle in their ignorance, women in their lust.
  3. Fidelity, if it is born from vision and strength–not from fear, indolence or weakness–is darker than all forms of infidelity.
  4. Physical absence, erotic presence; physical presence, erotic absence.
  5. We do not have names anymore, the most we do is borrow names; we do not have gods, the most we do is work to reconstruct the memory of gods.
  6. Passion becomes sickening after a while; surely this is why we invented technology–to help us escape into a cold metallic universe.  To crawl from a concrete uterus to suck on plastic breasts.
  7. An artist is simply someone who’s unable to forget the suffering of the world.
  8. Better to be criticized by a great soul than praised by a little one.
  9. The difference between God and the Devil is simple:  the former prefers desire to consummation, the latter the reverse.
  10. Only mediocre writers write about the world the way it is; the best writers write about the world as it isn’t and, in so doing, show us the world the way it is.  We can only handle truth in a mirror.
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Aphorisms Five
June 29, 2009, 9:31 pm
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  1. The only difference between an artist and a scholar is that the former knows he’s a charlatan and the latter doesn’t.  But this is a big difference.
  2. The complexity of an individual is directly proportional to the degree to which one cannot locate their centre.
  3. Humanity has one dream:  to live in an alternative reality to nature.  But we have only one means to achieve it:  nature.
  4. I’ve never found intimacy that intimate.
  5. The point about emptiness is not that it leads to calm indifferent compassion, but that it can lead to anything.
  6. Democracy is the tyranny of the stupid.
  7. Love is only interesting when the risk of death is present.
  8. Most people stop developing intellectually and spiritually sometime between 16 and 25; the rest of their lives is devoted to covering up this fact.
  9. I’ve never pretended to be anything other than a fraud.
  10. There is only one thing to learn–compassion; only one teacher–suffering; and only one lecture–silence.
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Aphorisms Four
June 23, 2009, 3:20 pm
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  1. People say trust life; but who can trust life once they’ve known her?
  2. Hope, of all the various illusions we live by, is the most positive and endearing, even if faintly stupid.
  3. Novelists are poets wearing too many clothes.
  4. Once you stop complaining about your lover, you know love has fled.
  5. It is a compliment when someone you think is a fool thinks you’re a fool.
  6. One should never object to one’s fate; one should only object to the order of the world.
  7. Writing is just living, but in a mirror.
  8. True morality combines the indifference of the philanderer with the compassion of the saint.
  9. What’s all this about experience leading to wisdom?  Experience leads to death.
  10. All God’s children are desolate voyeurs.
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Aphorisms Three
June 15, 2009, 12:38 am
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  1. A philosopher is simply one for whom his non-existence is as real as his existence.
  2. The problem with life is that it gives one no time to think.  The great benefit of life is that it gives one something to think about.
  3. People think consummation is the greatest force; but, truly, frustration is far greater.
  4. Better than to dream dreams is to make them.
  5. Humanity is an experiment against reality.
  6. The purpose of existence is to continuously fight to not become what your parents were.
  7. Ideas tend to bravado, application to compromise.
  8. Sometimes leaving the world is the only way to enter it.
  9. Erotic play inspires thought.  Marriage inspires marriage.
  10. In the era of truth, we were forced to live language; now, in the era of language, we are forced to live truth.  This fact, more than any other, should make us disbelieve in progress.
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Aphorisms Two
June 10, 2009, 5:37 pm
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  1. Once you’ve explored anything to its depths, you discover only surfaces.
  2. Far more terrifying than that people might be lying to you is that they might be telling you the truth.
  3. Couples don’t grow apart; they simply learn how far apart they’ve always been.
  4. The main failure of suicide is a lack of humour.
  5. Marriage is nature crucified on the tree of society.
  6. Most people want to be loved for themselves, but isn’t any kind of love worth having to be loved for what one is not?
  7. Most mistake the novel for the interesting.
  8. Only when the self has learned to work against itself will war be unnecessary.
  9. Humans are best defined as the animal who runs away.
  10. Art’s primary function is to make mediocre minds think they’re not.
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Aphorisms One
June 1, 2009, 9:31 am
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  1. We feel affectionate toward those we rip off, as long as we don’t rip them off too much–then we despise them.
  2. The only thing worse than not falling in love is falling in love.
  3. We fear boredom more than war, betrayal, and death.
  4. One should be indifferent to one’s particular sufferings, but not indifferent to suffering.
  5. There are two facts.  The fact that existence is only bread and circuses.  And the fact of art, which objects to existence being only bread and circuses.
  6. A laugh destroys power; power destroys a laugh.
  7. A drug is a plane ride to God for those who can’t fly themselves.
  8. Realists screw others, idealists screw themselves.
  9. Humanity, to be able to talk about nature and act to reduce its pillage of nature, must become as unnatural as possible.  For nature is waste and apathy and darkness.  But ecology is restraint and difference and thought.
  10. When a feeling is other than a belief, believe the feeling.
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