19 Quotations by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- 1. Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
- 2. Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
- 3. Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
- 4. Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
- 5. Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al ...
- 6. Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there a ...
- 7. Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
- 8. Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "y ...
- 9. One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. ...
- 10. The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a ...
- 11. The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh ...
- 12. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri ...
- 13. There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r ...
- 14. This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very ...
- 15. To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re ...
- 16. To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b ...
- 17. We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o ...
- 18. When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth ...
- 19. With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p ...
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