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"What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
"But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers."
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
"Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it."
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