Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Toads, Might, Duty

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• 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

  Men, Past, Two

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• 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

  Pain, Lying, Dying

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• 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

  Pain, Journey, Imagination

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• Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Weakness, Artistic

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• The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sadness, People, Way

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

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

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  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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• 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

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

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• 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

  Anxiety, Mind, Too Much

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• 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

  Mean, Loving You, Battle

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

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• 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

  Humble, Self, People

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• Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Love Is, Poodles, Dignity

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• 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

  Kitchen, Vices, Flavor

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

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• 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

  Love Is, Thinking, Rights

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• 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

  Lying, Normal, Madness

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• My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Insomnia, Lines, Trouble

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• Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Hate, Men, Two

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• When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sleep, Insomnia, Impossible

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• 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

  Letting Go, Luxury, Comfort

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• 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

  Talking, Soul, Body

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• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Life, Life Is, Transparency

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• 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

  Dream, Art, Distance

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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Light, Wells, Knows

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• The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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