Pitigrilli Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. Not having a moustache, he was in the habit of twirling his eyebrows. "Why do you keep twirling your eyebrows?" a young lady asked him one day. "We all twirl the hairs we have, depending on our age and sex," Tito replied. The young lady thought him very witty and fell in love with him. She

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#4. 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 of the same theme.

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

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#6. The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection.

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#7. 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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#8. Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad.

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#9. Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

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

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#11. The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one, least of all the mob, because the mob, the multitude, are like women: they betray those who love them.

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#12. The height of perfection is mediocrity.

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