Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.”
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“The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.”
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“there are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...”
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“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
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“Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself”
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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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“Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.”
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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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“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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“In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone...”
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“Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.”
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“troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...”
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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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“To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.”
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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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“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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“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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“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...”
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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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“When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.”
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“I piss on you all from a considerable height.”
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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; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting -or he'll come along and nibble your brain.”
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“Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.”
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“All great innovations are built on rejections.”
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“The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.”
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“whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah!”
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“reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...”
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“so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many ***** and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...”
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“They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.”
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