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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien

It is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable. — Flann O'Brien

still loved but deprived of grace — Flann O'Brien

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch. — Flann O'Brien

But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head? — Flann O'Brien

Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true. — Flann O'Brien

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. — Flann O'Brien

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't. — Flann O'Brien

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. — Flann O'Brien

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. — Flann O'Brien

My father ... was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. — Flann O'Brien

Recently in mixed company ... I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was the greatest living swine. — Flann O'Brien

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable. — Flann O'Brien

The first beginnings of wisdom ... is to ask questions but never to answer any. — Flann O'Brien

We should not sleep to recover the energy expended when awake but rather wake occasionally to defecate the unwanted energy that sleep engenders. — Flann O'Brien

When money's tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN. — Flann O'Brien

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness. — Flann O'Brien

And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity. — Flann O'Brien

Is it about a bicycle? — Flann O'Brien

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at. — Flann O'Brien

I am completely half afraid to think. — Flann O'Brien

He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes. — Flann O'Brien

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all. — Flann O'Brien

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'. — Flann O'Brien

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien

In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral. — Flann O'Brien

Another day gone and no jokes. — Flann O'Brien

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse. — Flann O'Brien

For my sustenance at night,
the whole that my hands can glean
from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks
the herbs and the plenteous fruits ... — Flann O'Brien

happeinefs, what is it? lady, difterbed in her Bed, your thoughts of it? — Flann O'Brien

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? — Flann O'Brien

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind. — Flann O'Brien

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded. — Flann O'Brien

You may have come on no bicycle," he said, "but that does not say that you know everything. — Flann O'Brien

It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter. — Flann O'Brien

Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop. — Flann O'Brien

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. — Flann O'Brien