"To understand a man is really to be that man."

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Otto Weininger

“I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.”
“Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!”
“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”
“Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!”

Source : Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”
“The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.”
“I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.”
“When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.”
“I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.”

Source : "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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