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anetq's review against another edition
3.0
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Aphorisms are truly a strange genre - making everything seem truer in their brevity, yet at the same time more banal.
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The poets life is apparently a cliché of struggling with words, thoughts of art, death and a bohemian sex life, and literary jealousy.
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This does not make it bad, just strangely familiar. As if you've read it all before. But maybe better phrased.
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Aphorisms are truly a strange genre - making everything seem truer in their brevity, yet at the same time more banal.
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The poets life is apparently a cliché of struggling with words, thoughts of art, death and a bohemian sex life, and literary jealousy.
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This does not make it bad, just strangely familiar. As if you've read it all before. But maybe better phrased.
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gotterdammerung's review
5.0
A rarity in English today: a bona ride aphorist. A great place to start studying aphorisms before you tackle the true masters of the genre in La Rochefoucauld or Nietzsche or Cioran.
debshelf's review
4.0
I will probably purchase this book sometime in the future, because a number of these aphorisms are completely arresting, and I was stopped in my tracks repeatedly while reading this book. Definitely wish to revisit.
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