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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
Troubles
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Pleasures
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Trouble
Pleasure
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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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I piss on you all from a considerable height.
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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.
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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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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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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 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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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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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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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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