Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and...

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for...

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for...

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they...

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they...

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have...

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have...

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.