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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.
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To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little.
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We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.
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It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.
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The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
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She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.
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The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.
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A few poetic regrets, if adroitly placed, are as becoming to a woman as gossamer hair in the moonlight. What
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Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.
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Telling it all after the fact ... easier said than done! ... much easier!
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All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
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She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In
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Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We
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Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ...
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When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.
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He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection?
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Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors.
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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.
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You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.
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To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ...
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Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.
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He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.
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Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.
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The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death.
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Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!
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Everything's permissible internally.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
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Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.
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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.
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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)
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Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.
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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
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When you write, you should put your skin on the table.
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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
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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
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Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.
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Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...
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Lie, copulate, and die.
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Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.
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Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...
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Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going
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Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...
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If it is your duty to croak like the toad, thengo ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
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All the currencies of Europe are relatives of the Dollar.
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The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.
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Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor.
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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.
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You have to choose: death or lies.
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All in all, death is something like marriage.
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Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.
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In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.
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Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!
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Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.
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Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.
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People, countries, and objects all end up as smells.
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Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But
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Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.
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If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
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Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits ...
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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.
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Whether you're making love to the ladies or postulating the infinite, you'll still get all flabby one day!
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Life must go on, even if it's no joke ... just pretend to believe in the future.
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Women always have some mental reservation.
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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.
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From
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History doesn't pass the dishes again.
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You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
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The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...
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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.
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At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet
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There's no tyrant like a brain. Below
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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.
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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
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I piss on you all from a considerable height.
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It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
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Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die.
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Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames.
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Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...
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There's no tyrant like a brain.
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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.
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Blessed are those who can content themselves with whorehouses! Parapine,
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it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even
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When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
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In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away ... past, present, and future together.
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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They die of love - inside. After
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Near the kiosk the old lady who sold refreshments seemed slowly to be gathering all the shadows of evening about her skirts.
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Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
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Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I
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Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
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