“We went there to grope for our happiness, which all the world was threatening with the utmost ferocity. We were ashamed of… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“I've never been able to forget the infinite little smile of pure affection that danced across his livid face. Enough gaiety to… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Whether you're making love to the ladies or postulating the infinite, you'll still get all flabby one day!” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Why kid ourselves, people have nothing to say to one another, they all talk about their own troubles and nothing else. Each… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“I've got plenty of courage, as much as you! ... Only, if you want the whole truth ... everything, absolutely everything! disgusts… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This body of… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
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… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
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… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“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… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
