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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
[ Children ]
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
[ Eroticism ]
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
[ Aphorisms and Epigrams ]
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
[ Army and Navy ]
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
[ Democracy ]
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
[ Learning ]
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
[ Education ]
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He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
[ Sleep ]
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
[ Journalism and Journalists ]
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
[ Language ]
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
[ Marriage ]
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
[ Scandal ]
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
[ Irony ]
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
[ Sexuality ]
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
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Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
[ Stupidity ]
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
[ Words ]
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
[ Morality ]
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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
[ Psychoanalysis ]
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When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
[ Religion ]
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