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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.
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.
I am not for women but against men.
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
Talent is often a defect in character.
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.
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 art and the businessman make it work.
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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.
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.