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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.
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
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Olean
New York
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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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There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
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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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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
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It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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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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The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
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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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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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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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In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
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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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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
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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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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.
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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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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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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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