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Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
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.
Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.
Nestroy's words ought to apply to an artist and an idea: "I have made a prisoner, and he won't let go of me!"
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.
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