"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
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"Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure"
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"A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing."
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"Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane."
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"The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory."
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"It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half."
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"My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once."
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"I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round."
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"When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on."
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"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
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"Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them."
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"If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush."
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"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow."
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"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"
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"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
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"Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed."
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""A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.""
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"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
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"Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos."
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"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket."
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