The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

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Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

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