An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
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.
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.