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This book compiles a selection of aphorisms that delve into the complexities of truth and its various forms, offering readers a contemplative exploration of the human condition and the ways in which truth can be perceived and manipulated.
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“There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.”
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“It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.”
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“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”
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“The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.”
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“They judge lest they be judged.”
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“Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.”
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“Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.”
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“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”
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“I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.”
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“One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.”
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“The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.”
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“One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.”
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“The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.”
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“My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.”
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“Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.”
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“Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.”
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“There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.”
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“A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.”
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“Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.”
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“Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.”
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“I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.”
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“The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.”
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“Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.”
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“On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.”
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“The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.”
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“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”
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“Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.”
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“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”
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“Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.”
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“Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.”
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“Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.”
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“I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.”
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“Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.”
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“Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.”
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“Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.”
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“Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.”
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“A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.”
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“If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.”
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“Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.”
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“Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.”
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“Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.”
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“In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.”
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“An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.”
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“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
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“Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.”
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“What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.”
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“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.”
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“Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.”
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“Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.”
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“Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.”
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