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" "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white ' 'Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions ( (Philosophy is) the yelping hound howling at her lord (poetry) 2 2 + 2 = 5 A A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain A barber, a bald man and an absent minded professor A book about nothing A country's culture can be assessed by the extent to which its lavatory walls are smeared A knife without a blade, for which the handle is missing A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman A picture is worth a thousand words A rolling stone gathers no moss A rose by any other name would smell as sweet A sadistic Bohemian, an alcoholic, and a murderous homosexual A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism Abandon all hope, you who enter here Afghanistan Bananistan Alas, poor Yorick Alea iacta est All That Is Solid Melts into Air All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music All art is erotic All art is quite useless All determination is negation All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way All is one All men who are secure from want and care become a burden to themselves All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone All roads lead to Rome All the world's a stage All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All's fair in love and war An artist might advance specifically to get lost And the Word was made flesh And what will you do with the grail when you have found it? And yet it moves Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul? Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish Art for art's sake As above, so below As for living, our servants will do that for us At least I will learn this melody before I die At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman At quo sis humilis magis et subiectus amori, hoc magis effectu saepe fruare bono Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau! Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant B Back to nature! Beast with two backs Beautiful as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table Beauty is a promise of happiness Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all Become what you are Befehl ist Befehl Bellum omnium contra omnes Better Living Through Chemistry Better were it that such literature did not exist Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect Big Fish Eat Little Fish Blah Blituri Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience Building an enormous castle and living in a shack close by

B cont. But if cattle and horses and lions had hands By the displacement of an atom a world may be shaken Byron and Sade are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns C Can't say what they mean don't mean what they say Capitalism cannot save the world, they say, but communism cannot even help itself Carpe diem Casta est quam nemo rogavit Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul Cease to shade me from the sun Chance pour toi et moi ba da ba da da da da da da Charlemagne, without Mohammet, would be inconceivable Christianity is universal cynicism Cogito, ergo sum Communist at 20, capitalist at 50 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers Concerning the surface of God Credo quia absurdum Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all Culture is the best which has been thought and said Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production D Das Leben und die Träume sind Blätter eines und des nämlichen Buches Das Nichts nichtet Das Ziel des Rechts ist der Friede, das Mittel dazu der Kampf De gustibus non est disputandum De la musique avant toute chose De mortuis nil nisi bonum De te fabula narratur Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh! Death, for the ancient Greeks, was "hollow and dark like woman" Deformed beauty and yet a beautiful deformity Der Krieg bekommt mir wie eine Badekur Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne Deus sive natura Diaboli virtus in lumbis est Die Gedanken sind frei Die Mowen sehen die aus, als ob sie Emma hiessen Dieu c’est le mal Dismembered limbs, a severed head, a hand cut off at the wrist, feet which dance by themselves Do you read dictionaries? Du mußt dein Leben ändern Dying is certainly to be regarded as the real aim of life D’abord, il n’y a rien, ensuite un rien profond, puis une profondeur bleue E Each consciousness pursues the death of the other Each man kills the thing he loves Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust Emotion has taught mankind to reason Enjoy Your Symptom! Eros is a great leveller Eroticism ... is assenting to life up to the point of death Errare humanum est Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral ... Est deus in nobis Est virgo hec penna, meretrix est stampificata Estes ou fustes, d'effet ou de volonte, putes Et in peccatis concepit me mater mea Eureka (word) Even God cannot make two times two not make four Every landscape is a state of the soul Every pot will find its lid Every woman adores a fascist Everybody continually kills the Mandarin Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old Everything I leave behind me ... is to be burned unread Everything useful is ugly F F**king and shooting are the same thing Featherless biped Femme folle à la messe, et femme molle, à la fesse

F cont. Festina lente Fex urbis lex orbis First they came ... Firstly, I fix my nail Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration Foeda For a long time I went to bed early For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror For nothing but desperation can save us For sale: baby shoes, never worn Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation From today, painting is dead Fuck it or kill it Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed G Get the butter Getting drunk on a glass of water Give me Liberty, or give me Death! H Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden Hath not a Jew eyes? Have you ever heard of insect politics? If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee He will be forced to be free Heaven is where the police are British Hell is other people Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen! Here, the situation is catastrophic but not serious Hey, Johnny, What are you rebelling against? Hic, ubi vir non est, ut sit adulterium History is written by the winners Homo homini lupus Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How much more guilty are we in this respect than animals? How to philosophize with a hammer I I Have a Dream I Shop, Therefore I Am I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man I am all that has been, and is, and shall be I am filthy I am happy when it rains, because if I'm not it rains too I am not a man, I am dynamite I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence I am nothing but I must be everything I am sick and tired of hearing about all the radicals I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction I believe, that the mob, the mass, the herd, will always be despicable I came too late into a world too old I can never catch myself I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images I did not have sexual relations with that woman I don't believe in it. But I am told it works even if you don't believe in it I don't care about the word art I go to seek a Great Perhaps I have an enormous desire to practice a little artistic terrorism I have forgotten my umbrella I have labored carefully not to mock, lament, or execrate the actions of men; I have labored to understand them I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice I hope you will forgive me for the discovery that all moral philosophy until now has been boring and belongs among the sedatives I know it when I see it I know of no bomb other than a book I know that I know nothing I like words I love this word decadence I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity I never read a book I must review, it prejudices you so I was fated to steal

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