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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

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

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

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

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

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.