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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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
Entirely
Journey
Strength
Imaginary
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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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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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All in all, death is something like marriage.
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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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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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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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Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
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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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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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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.
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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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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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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When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
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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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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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