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Renzo Novatore

My Maxims (From My IntimateToughts Notebook)

October 15 th , 1920



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GOD: e creation of a sick f an tasy. Inhab itan t of sen ile andimpo ten t brains . Compan ion and com f orter of ranc id spirit sborn to slavery. A pill f or cons tipated minds. Marxism f orthe faint of heart.

HUMANITY: An abstract word with a nega tive conno tation ,long on power, short on truth. An obscene mask paintedon the mean face of a shrewd vulgarian for the purposeof dominating the multitude of sentimentalist idiots andimbeciles.COUNTRY: Penal servitude for the semi-intelligent, a cow-shed o f imbec ility. A Circe who trans f orms her adoring f ansinto dogs and p igs. A prostitute f or the master, a pimp of the foreigner. Child-eater, parent-slanderer and scoffer atheroes.FAMILY: e denial of love, life and liberty.SOCIALISM: Discipline, discipline; obedience, obedience;slavery and igno rance , pregnan t with au thority. Abourgeoisbody grotesquely fa ened by a vulgar christian creature. Amedley of fetishism, sectarianism and cowardice.

ORGANIZATIONS, LEGISLATIVE BODIES AND UNIONS:Churches for the powerless. Pawnshops for the stingy andweak. Many join to live parasitically off the backs of theircard-carrying simpleton colleagues. Some join to becomespies. Others, the most sincere, join to end up in jail fromwhe re they can obse rve the mean -spiritedness o f all the rest.SOLIDARITY: e macab re altar used by capab le comed iansof all sort to display their priestly talent for reciting masses.

e beneciaries pay nothing less than 100% humiliation.FRIENDSHIP: Fortuna te are those who ha ve drunk from itschalice without having their souls offended or poisoned. If one such pe rson exists, I urge them to send me their pho to-graph. I’m sure to look upon the face of an idiot.LOVE: Deception of the esh and damage to the spirit. Dis-ease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the



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heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which onegets f erocious ly inebriated two or three times a day in orderto consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. Andyet I wou ld pref er to die of love. It’s the on ly swind ler, a er

Judas, that can kill with a kiss.MAN: A lthy paste of servitude, tyranny, fetishism, fear,van ity -and igno rance . e greatest off ence one can comm itagainst an ass is to call it a man.WOMAN: T e most brutal of ens laved beasts. T e greatestvictim shuffling on earth. And, a er man, the most respon-sible f or her problems. I’d be curious to know wha t goesthrough her mind when I kiss her.



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October 15 th , 1920

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