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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. Bradley
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Elias Canetti
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Anatole Broyard
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. Bradley 
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Elias Canetti
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Anatole Broyard
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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