"A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored."
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"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human."
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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."
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"If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing."
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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
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"To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs."
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"Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code."
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"Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed."
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"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful."
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"A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold."
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"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
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"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
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"Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world."
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."
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"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves."
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"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."
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"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower."
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"What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!"
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"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."
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