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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.

— Pitigrilli Cocaina (1921)

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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.

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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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