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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.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 27
Died: 1961
Died: July 1
Military Personnel
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New York
Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches
Louis Ferdinand Destouches
Lui-Ferdinand Selin
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Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.
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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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Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
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For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.
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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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Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
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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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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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When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
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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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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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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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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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People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
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I piss on you all from a considerable height.
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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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