Itch of Wisdom  

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Itch of Wisdom (Cicuta Press, 1986) (originally published in Russian as Зуд Мудрости in 1984) is a collection of aphorisms by Mikhail Turovsky.

Examples

• "The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind."
• "Man is afraid of prison although he himself consists of cells."
• "Oppression is the legitimate mother of liberation. There's no hiding from alimony."
• "When your legs get weaker time starts running faster."
• "Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes."
• "Death is so preoccupied with life, that it has no time for anything else."
• "Now the Rubicon peacefully flows into the Styx."
• "If you have got a fulcrum, there is no need to turn over the world."
• "The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road."