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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears o...  
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.  
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbatio...  
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.  
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a rea...  
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or...  
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play chil...  
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the m...  
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappe...  
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provisi...  
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.  
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.  
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove ...  
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inherit...   Experience
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an o...  
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to j...  
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threaten...  
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for ma...  
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of somethin...  
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express ...  
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.  
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.  
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; it...  
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist ...  
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Cl...  
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as t...  
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on grav...  
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and cri...  
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from whi...  
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer ...  
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.  
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for con...  
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an ...  
This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be ...  
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expe...