Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.
("Journey to the End of the Night")
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Pleased at having proclaimed these useful truths, we sat looking at the ladies in the café.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
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