 If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. |
| There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. |
| Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. |
| To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. |
| There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. |
| The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. |
| He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. |
| 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. |
| Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. |
| The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. |
| Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. |
| Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. |
| Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. |
| Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. |
| Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. |
| Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. |
| An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. |
