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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts.

I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.

Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang (‘argot’) exists not anymore.

You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.

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