"The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember."
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"The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness."
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"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."
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"One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked."
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"If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work."
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"It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular."
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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
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"Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable."
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"One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty."
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"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."
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"A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good."
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"Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned."
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"Talent is often a defect in character."
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"The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets."
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"The real truths are those that can be invented."
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"News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off."
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"There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."
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"Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated."
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"Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."
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"You don't even live once."
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