Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

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• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
• If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
• 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…
• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
• 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…
• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• All great innovations are built on rejections.
• Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
• 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…
• I piss on you all from a considerable height.
• 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.…

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