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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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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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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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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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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

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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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