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" "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white ' 'Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions 'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things' ( (Philosophy is) the yelping hound howling at her lord (poetry) 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 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 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 determination is negation All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way All is one 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 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 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 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 Carpe diem Casta est quam nemo rogavit Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul Chance pour toi et moi ba da ba da da da da da da Charlemagne, without Mohammet, would be inconceivable Cogito ergo sum Computers are useless. They can only give you answers Concerning the surface of God

C cont. Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production D De gustibus non est disputandum De l’érotisme, il est possible de dire qu’il est l’approbation de la vie jusque dans la mort 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 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 Enjoy Your Symptom! 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 Eureka (word) Every pot will find its lid Everything I leave behind me ... is to be burned unread Everything useful is ugly F Featherless biped Festina lente First they came ... Firstly, I fix my nail Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration For a long time I went to bed early 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 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? He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. Heaven is where the police are British Hell is other people 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 made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence 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 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 cont. I don't believe in it. But I am told it works even if you don't believe in it 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 studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice 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 would only believe in a God that knows how to dance I would prefer not to I'm Spartacus! I'm an atheist, thank God I'm devoted to the principle of originality I've got a hole in me pocket If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him If a pregnant woman greatly desires a chickpea If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap If you don't like the news ... go out and make some of your own Il n'y a pas de hors-texte Il y a un autre monde mais il est dans celui-ci Imaginary gardens with real toads in them In a normal vita sexualis no neurosis is possible In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In love, there is always one who suffers and another who is bored In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes In tristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis Inter faeces et urinam nascimur Interim velim a sole mihi non obstes! Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? Is the glass half empty or half full? It is clear that the world is purely parodic It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets It is in my nature to sting you It is not by confining one's neighbor that one is convinced of one's own sanity It is what it is It was a dark and stormy night It was the best of times, it was the worst of times J J'ai la vérole ! Enfin ! La vraie ! Je est un autre Je ne sais quoi Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? K Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies Know thyself L La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas La culture, c’est la règle, et l’art, c’est l’exception La philosophie doit tout dire La tristesse durera toujours Language Is a Virus Lasciva nobis pagina, vita proba Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone Le beau est toujours bizarre Le fruit de l’amour mondain n’est autre chose que la jouissance Le style c'est l'homme Les Bourgeois, c'est comme les cochons Less is more Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors Let there be light Liberté, égalité, fraternité Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

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