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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea."
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"I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans."
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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
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"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
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"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
Equality
"I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high."
Freedom
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
Friendship
"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
Life
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
Love
"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
Death
"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
Needs
"You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?"
Despair
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
Mind
"You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream."
Illusion
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