Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Long, People, Special

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• In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.

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  Running, Distance, Moving

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• Women always have some mental reservation.

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  Reservations

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• 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!

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  Wall, Two, People

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• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

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  Men, Desire, Poor

  "Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932.

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• People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

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  Reality, Delirium Tremens, People

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• It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

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  Fear, Men, Should

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• 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.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Doe

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• Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

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  Believe, Goes On, Jokes

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• Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

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  Way, Being Afraid, Cowardly

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• People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

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  People, Done, Favors

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• 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!.

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  Nice, Doe, Advantage

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• 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.

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  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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• 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.

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  Fall, Kissing, Pigs

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• All great innovations are built on rejections.

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  Rejection, Innovation, Rejected

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• Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

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  November, Rave, Reason

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• 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.

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  Hate, People, Poor

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• That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

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  Sorrow, Dying

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• You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

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  Past, Shadow, Way

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• 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.

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  Business, Hate, People

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• Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah, it's an awful thing... and being young doesn't help any... when you notice for the first time... the way you lose people as you go along ... the buddies you'll never see again... never again... when you notice that they've disappeared like dreams... that it's all over... finished... that you too will get lost someday... a long way off but inevitably... in the awful torrent of things and people... of the days and shapes... that pass... that never stop.

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  Dream, Long, People

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• Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

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  Thinking, Life Is, Alcoholics

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• 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.

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  War, Heart, Race

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• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

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  Light, Lamps, Bears

  "Céline à Meudon : transcriptions des entretiens avec Jacques d'Arribehaude et Jean Guenot" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Éditions Jean Guenot, 1995.

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• 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.

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  Kings, Hero, Talking

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