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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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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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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 piss on you all from a considerable height.
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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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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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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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I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.
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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
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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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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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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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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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Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
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People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
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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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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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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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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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