in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.
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I am not for women but against men.
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Most writers have no other quality than the reader: taste. But the latter has the better taste, because he does not write, and the best if he does not read.
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True jealously wants not only fidelity, but the proof of fidelity as an imaginable situation. A jealous man is not content with his beloved not being unfaithful. Precisely that which he is not doing does not leave him in peace. But since there is no proving what is not done and the jealous man insists on proof, he ends up settling on proof of unfaithfulness.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
To be human is erroneous.
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Nestroy's words ought to apply to an artist and an idea: "I have made a prisoner, and he won't let go of me!"
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