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• A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
• To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
• We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating.
  • Cited by Hermann Scheer in his book Energy Autonomy
• The exit is usually where the entrance was.
• What limps – moves.

pl: Co kuleje – idzie.

• In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
• The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
• Even a glass eye can see its blindness.
• To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
• I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
• You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
• Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
• If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
• The first condition of immortality is death.
• The first symptom of death is birth.

pl: Pierwszym objawem śmierci są narodziny.

• Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
• Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.