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There's no tyrant like a brain.
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
Women always have some mental reservation.
I piss on you all from a considerable height.
All in all, death is something like marriage.
All great innovations are built on rejections.
Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.
The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.
Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
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.
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.
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.