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Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one. The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying. That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real. We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live. It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is. The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time. She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Priests know how to bury the worst scandals. Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ... Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection? He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection?
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors. Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all. A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex. You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ... To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education. He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry. Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Everything's permissible internally. Everything's permissible internally.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793) Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: He had the same trouble as all intellectuals - he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him. He had the same trouble as all intellectuals - he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: When you write, you should put your skin on the table. When you write, you should put your skin on the table.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents. Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ... Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ... Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far. A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Lie, copulate, and die. Lie, copulate, and die.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story. Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor. Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits ... Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: [T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood. [T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: At the bottom of all music you have to hear the tune without notes, made just for us, the tune of Death. At the bottom of all music you have to hear the tune without notes, made just for us, the tune of Death.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable. In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch. The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches? "Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ... Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: You have to choose: death or lies. You have to choose: death or lies.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames. Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: If you aren't rich you should always look useful. If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms. Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else. Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention. Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions! Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: All in all, death is something like marriage. All in all, death is something like marriage.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts. Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: I piss on you all from a considerable height. I piss on you all from a considerable height.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ... Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: History doesn't pass the dishes again. History doesn't pass the dishes again.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you! If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then
go ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ... Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ... Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine. In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Women always have some mental reservation. Women always have some mental reservation.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage. Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: They die of love - inside. After They die of love - inside. After
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away ... past, present, and future together. In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away ... past, present, and future together.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Blessed are those who can content themselves with whorehouses! Parapine, Blessed are those who can content themselves with whorehouses! Parapine,
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: There's no tyrant like a brain. There's no tyrant like a brain.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: There's no tyrant like a brain. Below There's no tyrant like a brain. Below
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough. Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: They'd put their flesh and spirit into that house of theirs, like a snail. But the snail doesn't know what he's doing. The They'd put their flesh and spirit into that house of theirs, like a snail. But the snail doesn't know what he's doing. The
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes: You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

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