Pitigrilli

“The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid…

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“Jealousy is a fever that arises from a stupid, baseless excitement in our unthinking brain. Jealousy is a phenomenon of auto-suggestion. The…

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

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“Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad.”

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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…

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“When I was twenty they told me to swear loyalty to the King, a person who acts in the capacity because his…

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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…

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“Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.”

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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…

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“We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize…

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

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“The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one,…

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“The height of perfection is mediocrity.”

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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…

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“I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a…

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