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[T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

— Pitigrilli Cocaina (1921)

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Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.

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I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success.

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Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.

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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.

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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.

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