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- Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity. Intelligence
- If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but… All
- For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. Advice
- Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. First Kiss
- Man is the inventor of stupidity. Invention
- Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied,… Art
- It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. Affinities
- Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think… Balloons
- The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,… Beauty
- Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has… Any
- Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. Aberration
- Art is the accomplice of love. Accomplice
- A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble Compressed
- Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy. Delicate
- And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and… Absolute
- The woman who loves always smells good. Always Smells
- Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love. Begins
- Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Accomplice
- Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live Art
- Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness Connected
- Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time Bear
- Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction Abstraction
- Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Complex
- Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths… According
- Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. Almost Always
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