"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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"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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"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
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"Andy Warhol made fame more famous."
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"I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws."
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"Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on."
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"Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.*"
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"All great art and literature is propaganda."
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"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
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"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."
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"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
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"The offender never pardons."
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"Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path."
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"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
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"It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."
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"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."
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