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"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."
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"You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself."
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"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."
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"Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it."
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"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
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"My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt."
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"The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see."
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"'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally."
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"The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics."
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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Art
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
God
"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
Contempt
"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."
Criticism
"Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become."
Man
"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."
Work
"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
Books
"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
Politics
"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
Truth
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