To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.
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It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
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The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.
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