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Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous read more
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished read more
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".
To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the read more
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
