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The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.

To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.

It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.

Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In

Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We

Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ...

He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection?

Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.

To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ...

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.

He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.

Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.

The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death.

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

Everything's permissible internally.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.

I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)

Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

He had the same trouble as all intellectuals - he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.

When you write, you should put your skin on the table.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...

Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ...

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

Lie, copulate, and die.

Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going

Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor.

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits ...

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

[T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.

At the bottom of all music you have to hear the tune without notes, made just for us, the tune of Death.

I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me.

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.

That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But

Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's

The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch.

Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...

You have to choose: death or lies.

Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But

Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.

Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.

Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!

All in all, death is something like marriage.

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.

what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then
go ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you!

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...

Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...

In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Women always have some mental reservation.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength

Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.

Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I

They die of love - inside. After

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away ... past, present, and future together.

it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even

Blessed are those who can content themselves with whorehouses! Parapine,

There's no tyrant like a brain.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

There's no tyrant like a brain. Below

At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

They'd put their flesh and spirit into that house of theirs, like a snail. But the snail doesn't know what he's doing. The

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.