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For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A village, even a small one, takes at least all night to burn, in the end it looks like an enormous flower, then there's only a bud, and after that nothing. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the civilian population with thrills and self-justification. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My one and only chicken, bequeathed to me by Robinson, dreaded the noon hour the same as I did, he'd go back in with me. For three weeks the chicken lived with me like that, following me like a dog, clucking constantly, seeing snakes wherever he went. One day of extreme boredom, I ate him. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy Fable! the book that rejuvenates your soul! makes your belly belly-laugh! turns your cares to dust! ... likewise your moods, woes an wounds! ... turns everything rosy, deflates spleen and bile! pocondria! not just any old work! not just any old words! Fable!
You gotta be categorical. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
But maybe it's wrong of me to complain ... I'm alive after all ... and I lose an enemy or two every day ... cancer, apoplexy, gluttony ... it's a pleasure the number that pass on! ... I'm not hard to please ... a name! ... another! ... there are good things in life ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain ... my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay ... she missed out on all that ... like me, her son ... a lifetime of sacrifice! ... the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive ... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
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
After all, when our egoism lets us go for a while, when it comes time to throw it off, the only women whose memory you cherish in your hearts are the ones who really loved men a little, not just one man, even if it was you, but the whole lot. When -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If you aren't rich you should always look useful. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Whether you're making love to the ladies or postulating the infinite, you'll still get all flabby one day! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand ... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts ... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better ... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well ... I wasn't entirely alone ... It's not possible to sleep alone ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, simply a fictitious narrative. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Things are different when you go back to them, they seem to have more power to enter into us more sadly, more deeply, more gently than before, to merge with the death which is slowly, pleasantly, sneakily growing inside us, and which we train ourselves to resist a little less each day. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
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
There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
All the currencies of Europe are relatives of the Dollar. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no further progress would be possible. They would spend a whole year over every page. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Everything's permissible internally. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with putrid chicken innards. Well, take it from me, a man is just like that, except that he's fatter and hungrier and can move around, and inside there's a dream. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
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
Whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Blessed are those who can content themselves with whorehouses! Parapine, -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the body as soon as the body is sick or things go badly. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I piss on you all from a considerable height. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has ... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not? -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He had the same trouble as all intellectuals - he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's no tyrant like a brain. Below -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Priests know how to bury the worst scandals. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A few poetic regrets, if adroitly placed, are as becoming to a woman as gossamer hair in the moonlight. What -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Never be picky and choosy about means of escaping disembowelment, or waste your time trying to find reasons for the persecution you're a victim of. Escape is good enough for the wise. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This body of ours, this disguise put on by common jumping molecules, is in constant revolt against the abominable farce of having to endure. Our molecules, the dears, want to get lost in the universe as fast as they can! It makes them miserable to be nothing but "us," the jerks of infinity. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery ... It's not a life. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that's him, our master. Come, kiss me. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Near the kiosk the old lady who sold refreshments seemed slowly to be gathering all the shadows of evening about her skirts. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people ... twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good from the bad. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
When you write, you should put your skin on the table. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn't go any futrther because of the ocean. That's France, that's the French people. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Women always have some mental reservation. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything ... It's not a sign of intelligence ... Nothing to boast about, memory ... that's just how it is ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lie, copulate, and die. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
An Immense hatred keeps me alive ... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it, so deep and thick there will always be some left, enough to go around ... it will ooze out over the earth ... and poison it, so nothing will grow but viciousness, among the dead, among men. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
They die of love - inside. After -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
After conscientiously tasting fritters every day for a month Lola had put on two pounds! Her little belt bore witness to the disaster, she found herself obliged to move on to the next notch. She burst into tears. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your tongue was spared by the darkness. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If you've got plenty of nerve, you're all set, because then you're entitled to do practically anything at all, you've got the majority on your side, and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over ... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid ... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mother sensed her daughter's animal superiority and instinctively condemned it out of hand, the unforgettable depth of her fucking, her way of coming like a continent! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
History doesn't pass the dishes again. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
[T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away ... past, present, and future together. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life must go on, even if it's no joke ... just pretend to believe in the future. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
She robbed me blind, the bitch! ... and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered ... and never will suffer! you could call it their reward! ... robbing me brings you good luck! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You have to choose: death or lies. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
But women aren't just bodies! ... boor! they're "companions" as well! what of their charms, their grace, their twitterings? sure, sure! if suicide appeals to you ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People avenge themselves for the favors done them. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People, countries, and objects all end up as smells. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
All in all, death is something like marriage. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only two manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's no tyrant like a brain. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent ... In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
I wish the storm would make even more of a clatter, I wish the roofs would cave in, that spring would never come again, and that the house would blow down. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That street was like a dismal gash, endless, with us at the bottom of it, filling it from side to side, advancing from sorrow to sorrow, toward an end that is never in sight, the end of all the streets in the world. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Telling it all after the fact ... easier said than done! ... much easier! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Two years is the time it takes to perceive at one glance, a glance as sure as instinct, the ugliness that can come over a face, even one that was delicious in its day. For -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter ... The main thing is to keep people from bothering you ... The rest is eyewash ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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