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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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You don't even live once.
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What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beaut...
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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Two people did not get married. Since then they have been living in mutual widowhood.
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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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Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
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If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but a...
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment to acquire gra...
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Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.
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Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
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Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the d...
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A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered for a head cold...
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He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
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Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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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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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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