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People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
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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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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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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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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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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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.
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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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It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
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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 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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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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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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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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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Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
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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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Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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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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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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