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Word: charnfort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1983-1983
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...tiptoes"; "The enquiry into a dream is another dream"; "Love is presently out of breath when it is to go uphill, from the children to the parents." By the time aphorisms became the property of the people, commoners had learned to speak like counts. The humbly born Sebastian Charnfort decided that "whoever is not a misanthrope at 40 can never have loved mankind." Nietzsche's phrases bore a strychnine smile: "The thought of suicide is a great consolation; with the help of it one has got through many a bad night"; "Wit closes the coffin on an emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Proverbs or Aphorisms? | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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