Excerpts from Signposts to Elsewhere, by Yahia Lababidi:

History does not repeat itself, human nature does.

 

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Time heals old wounds only because there are new wounds to attend to.

 

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Marrying for looks is like buying books for their pictures - a good idea, if one cannot read.

 

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Opposites attract, similarities last.

 

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Whoever speaks definitively speaks prematurely.

 

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Artificial people, like artificial flowers, last longer.

 

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The sinner says: “saints are simply repressed sinners!” The saint says: “sinners are merely errant saints.”

 

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