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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
Novelist
Obstetrician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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Olean
New York
Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches
Louis Ferdinand Destouches
Lui-Ferdinand Selin
L.-F. Selin
L.-F. Céline
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L.-F. Celine
Louis Ferdinand Céline
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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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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.
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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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A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
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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'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.
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A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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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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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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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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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All in all, death is something like marriage.
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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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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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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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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
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If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
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In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
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