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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.
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
L.-F. Celine
Louis Ferdinand Céline
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Troubles
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Pleasures
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People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
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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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In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
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The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
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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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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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So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers!.
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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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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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Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
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Women always have some mental reservation.
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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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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.
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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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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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 to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
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Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
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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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I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.
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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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