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Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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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
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Louis Ferdinand Céline
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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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If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!
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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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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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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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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 wealthy. It's always so.
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I piss on you all from a considerable height.
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Chin up, Ferdinand, I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.
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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
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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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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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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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 you.
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