“Pleased at having proclaimed these useful truths, we sat looking at the ladies in the café.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist,… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“The Place Faidherbe had the characteristic atmosphere, the overdone décor, the floral and verbal excess, of a subprefecture in southern France gone… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“The religion of the flag promptly replaced the cult of heaven, an old cloud which had already been deflated by the Reformation… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“While he was cautiously preambling, I tried to form a picture of all he did each day to earn his calories, all… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“How imperious the homicidal madness must have become if they’re willing to pardon—no, forget!—the theft of a can of meat! True, we… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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
“There is something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don’t give a damn whether they’re getting what they… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“But when you are week the best way to fortify yourself is to strip the people you fear of the last bit… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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
