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A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.