More Aphorisms by Irena Karafilly

Posted on August 9, 2012
Filed Under Aphorisms, metaphor | 3 Comments

I blogged about Canadian author and journalist Irena Karafilly back in 2007. Karafilly has a novel, The Captive Sun, coming out and a new website, which includes a page with some of her aphorisms. Here’s a sample to get you started:

 

The only power you have over people is the ability to do without them.

 

The really amazing thing about history is not that it so often repeats itself, but that it fails to bore us.

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3 Responses to “More Aphorisms by Irena Karafilly”

  1. John Alejandro King on August 11th, 2012 1:13 am

    Not only does history repeat itself, it increasingly forgets where it put its keys.

  2. marty rubin on August 14th, 2012 6:40 pm

    There is no history, only accidents.

  3. Jay Friedenberg on August 29th, 2012 4:35 pm

    It is difficult to glean universal principles from history, as it is largely an uncontrolled experiment.

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