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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
No social stability without individual stability.
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
In real life there is no such person as the average man.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
The social body persists although the component cells may change.
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!