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"No, I dont 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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PitigrilliWhat a jester God is, Tito went on. No doubt it was He who created suc — Pitigrilli
"What a jester God is, Tito went on. No doubt it was He who created such blessings as water to make the grass grow, grass to fill animals bellies, animals to fill mens bellies, women for men to keep, the serpent to cause trouble to both sexes, truffles to slice and serve with lobsters, the sun to dry washing, the stars to shine on poets, and the moon so that Neapolitan songs could be written about it. But it strikes me as strange that things should have emerged from nothing at the mere sound of their names. I think the Almighty likes parlor tricks and arranged the whole thing beforehand, that like a good conjurer He had His boxes with double bottoms and His glasses prepared in advance, and that His bravura in seeming to create everything out of nothing in six days was a piece of American-style ballyhoo designed pour épater les bourgeois."
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Pitigrilli was the pseudonym of Dino Segre, an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaina (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the list of prohibited books by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published nov
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"Egli sapeva che le fanciulle cominciano con un ritardo di cinque minuti e finisco con i ritardi di quindici giorni e anche più. Tutta la morale sessuale non tende, in fondo, che a scongiurare, nelle fanciulle, il pericolo dei ritardi."
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"Ive 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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"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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"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."
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