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I I know that I know nothing I like words I love this word decadence I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity I never read a book I must review, it prejudices you so I was fated to steal I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance I would prefer not to I'll never have enough of killing whores I'm Spartacus! I'm an atheist, thank God I'm devoted to the principle of originality I'm gonna diss you right now I'm mad as hell I'm not much but I'm all I have I've got a hole in me pocket! If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him If a pregnant woman greatly desires a chickpea If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts If there is no god, then, everything is permitted If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap If you don't like the news ... go out and make some of your own If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him Ignorance is bliss Il n'y a pas de hors-texte Il y a un autre monde mais il est dans celui-ci Imaginary gardens with real toads in them In a normal vita sexualis no neurosis is possible In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In love, there is always one who suffers and another who is bored In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes In tristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis Inter faeces et urinam nascimur Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation Interim velim a sole mihi non obstes! Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read Is the glass half empty or half full It is clear that the world is purely parodic It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets It is in my nature to sting you It is not by confining one's neighbor that one is convinced of one's own sanity It is what it is It was a dark and stormy night It was the best of times, it was the worst of times It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards J J'ai la vérole ! Enfin ! La vraie ! James Lord (author) Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny Je est un autre Je ne sais quoi Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing K Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies Know thyself L La culture, c’est la règle, et l’art, c’est l’exception La philosophie doit tout dire La tristesse durera toujours Language Is a Virus Lasciva nobis pagina, vita proba Last night I dreamed about Freud. What does that mean Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone Le fruit de l’amour mondain n’est autre chose que la jouissance

L cont. Le style c'est l'homme Les Bourgeois, c'est comme les cochons Less is a bore Less is more Let no one ignorant of geometry enter Let there be light Let's be realistic and do the impossible Liberté, égalité, fraternité Life and dreams are leaves of the same book Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards Life in the "state of nature" is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short Life is too important to be taken seriously Look at that woman! Beneath her dress she's stark naked! Love Conquers All Love is blind Love is evil Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it M Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Madame Bovary, c'est moi Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? Make It New Make Room! Make Room! Make love, not war Maledicta Maman, maman... c'était pourtant si beau, la vie ! Man created God in his own image Man is a disease on the skin of the earth Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains Man is concrete sexual desire Man is nothing else than fetid sperm Man is the measure of all things Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know May the last king be strangled in the bowels of the last priest Meditatio compositionis generationis futuræ e qua iterum pendent innumeræ generationes Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at Men play at love to get sex and women play at sex to get love Merdre! Method of this work: literary montage. I have nothing to say only to show Metábasis eis állo génos Mille peintres sont morts sans avoir senti la chair Moi, je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas Motherfucking cocksucker motherfucking shit fucker what am I doing Movies are real life with the boring parts cut out My Name is Nobody My heart is French but my ass is international My idols are dead and my enemies are in power My taste includes both snails and oysters My taste, if you like, is depraved N Naturalia non sunt turpia Nature is an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere Nature is too green and badly lit Ne te lave pas... J'arrive! Ne travaillez jamais No gods, no masters No monster exists that cannot be made pleasing through art No poetry after Auschwitz No smoke without fire No, my yacht is not larger than it is Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men Nothing can disturb my writing, it's a disease Nothing comes from nothing Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution Nothing is more indisputable than the existence of our senses Nothing is true, everything is permitted

N cont. Notre héritage n'est précédé d'aucun testament Now is the winter of our discontent Nulla rosa est O O stercus pretiosum! Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies Obscurum per obscurius, ignotum per ignotius Of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits! Omne animal post coitum triste Omnia mutantur, nihil interit Omnia vincit amor, tamen ipsa superchiat amorem On loving an ugly woman On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence One can look at seeing but one can't hear hearing One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman One is not criminal for painting the strange tendencies inspired by nature One ought to learn anew about cruelty Only the perverse fantasy can still save us Ooh la la Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one Opium of the people Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read P Panta rhei Partir, c'est mourir un peu Pataphysics will be above all the science of the particular Pecunia non olet People are not complicated, either they love too much, either they don't love enough People don't just eat food, but also words People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing Perhaps all romance is like that Philosophers encroaching on the province of grammarians Plato is boring Poeta nascitur, non fit Poetry has no goal other than itself Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world Point of no return Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely Prejudice is good in its time and place Prodesse et delectare Property is theft! Protect Me From What I Want Q Qu'il n'y avait de bon en amour que le physique Quis custodiet ipsos custodes Quisque suos patimur manes Quisquis amat. veniat. Veneri volo frangere costas Qu’est-ce que l’art? Prostitution. R Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions Rest in peace Revenge is a dish best served cold Ridentem dicere verum: quid vetat Rien n'est beau que le laid; le laid seul est aimable Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Round up the usual suspects S Sadism is not a name finally given to a practice as old as Eros Salut monde Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled Sapere aude Science fiction is what we point to when we say it Science is politics by other means Science it would seem is not sexless; she is a man, a father and infected too Science without consciousness is nothing but the ruin of the soul Scratch an 'altruist', and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed Screwing is the lyricism of the masses Se non è vero, è ben trovato Seeing is believing

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