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"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."
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"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death
"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
Sex
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
Marriage
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People
"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
Blame
"If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers."
Love
"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."
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"Better is the enemy of good."
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"We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves."
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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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