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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.
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
Usher
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Classroom
Boredom
Living
Time
Life
Dirge
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In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.
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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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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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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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The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
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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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People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
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The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
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All in all, death is something like marriage.
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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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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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