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"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."

"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."

"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."

"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."


"I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner."


"If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account."


"Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us."


"There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off."


"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."


"Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic."


"A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts."
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