An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.