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"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
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"The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test."
Society

"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."
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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
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"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'"
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"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
Nature

"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
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"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
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"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
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