13 quotes
Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.
Cocaina (1921)
I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success.
Cocaina (1921)
Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.
Cocaina (1921)
A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations on the same theme.
Cocaina (1921)
No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.
Cocaina (1921)
Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad.
Cocaina (1921)
He knew that when girls start by being five minutes late they end by being a fortnight late, and even more. All sexual morality is basically intended to avert the danger of girls being late.
Cocaina (1921)
The height of perfection is mediocrity.
Cocaina (1921)
The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one, least of all the mob, because the mob, the multitude, are like women: they betray those who love them.
Cocaina (1921)
[T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.
Cocaina (1921)
All those people who dance in basements to harrow each other's nerve endings think and they're enjoying themselves don't realise in their frenzy that they are passive instruments in the hands of nature, which provides them with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
Cocaina (1921)
Women are like posters. One is stuck on top of another and covers it completely. Perhaps just for a moment, when the paste is still soft and the paper still wet and slightly transparent, you may still catch a vague impression of the splashes of color of the first, but soon there's no more trace of it. Then, when the second one is removed, both come away together, leaving your memory and your heart as blank as a wall.
Cocaina (1921)
The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection.
Cocaina (1921)