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

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 27
Died: 1961
Died: July 1
Military Personnel
Novelist
Obstetrician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Writer
Olean
New York
Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches
Louis Ferdinand Destouches
Lui-Ferdinand Selin
L.-F. Selin
L.-F. Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
L.-F. Celine
Louis Ferdinand Céline
Life
Transparency
Counts
Clearly
Worth
Written
Work
Much

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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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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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An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.
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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.
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Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.
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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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People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
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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 just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.
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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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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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When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.
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When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
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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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The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
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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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All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
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Most people die at the last minute others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
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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.
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