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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the...
I dream, therefore I exist.
Source: A Madman's Defense, pt. 1, ch. 7 (1968).
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy...
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end...
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people...
An aphorism
should be
like a burr:
sting,
and leave
a little soreness. . .
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Source: The Whole Bloody Bird, Aphs ...
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Source: The Whole Bloody Bird, Aphs ...
Since I no longer expect
anything from mankind except
madness,
meanness, and...
When you argue with your inferiors,
you convince them of only one thing:
they are as clever as...
One learns, said the other, to howl with the wolves. (On apprend ? hurler, dit l'autre, avec les...
She wavers, she hesitates; in one word, she is a woman. (Elle flotte, elle h?site; en un mot, elle est...
A single word often betrays a great design.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. (Ainsi que la vertue le crime a ses degr?s.)
Without money honor is merely a disease.
Source: Petit Jean, in Les Plaideurs, act...
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor...
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou.
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
Source: The Rub?'iy?t of Omar Khayy?m,...
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Here or There as strikes the Player...
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!