My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.
They judge lest they be judged.
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
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