Aphorisms (english)
Translation: Bill Buchanan
© Beat Rink
Exercise with patience:
Be patient with impatience.
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After the holiday, they saw in the photographs
all the things they had missed.
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It is fashionable to experience key events.
But is one standing in front of the right door?
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What counts is seldom
what we can count.
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A silhouette artist once explained:
Whoever looks only for the grand format
loses the clear profile.
Whoever looks only for the profile
robs themselves of the generous format.
The secret of this art is to place
a clear profile
in a generous format.
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“How stupid am I really?” –
a question only the wise man asks.
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In the rhetorical torture chamber of a populist
I discover – a rack for question-marks!
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Trapped in the smallest of spaces;
in brain cells.
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One must enclose a message in code
in order to find an open ear.
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Entertainment:
the less friction, the colder it is.
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Teachers, be warned: a reversed filler-funnel
can be used as a megaphone!
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You can also drown in the fountain of youth.
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How do you recognise humility?
Accuse it of pride. It will apologise.
Pride will react with outrage.
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Aphorism:
self-carved boomerang.
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Aphorism:
I have shortened my novel.
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Pen for aphorists:
after ten words it runs out of
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Difficult to strive for God’s nature
and not for his place.
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What claims to be deep faith
can also be the depth of the bag
in which one puts God.
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If the Holy Spirit is water,
He cannot be watered down.
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The religious fanatic forgets that God created nature.
Otherwise he would not be trying
to force the supernatural by means of the unnatural.
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Where pious naturalness
and natural piety are missing,
the law rules:
a pious law, or the law of nature.
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God became an outsider.
Other gods deal with insiders.
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A good preacher:
he makes Bible phrases
turn into Bible words again.
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A true follower:
he often turns round to look at those
who are following by example.
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We want an abstract God
because we have concrete idols.