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Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes about light

French Writer May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961

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Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn't quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and the dead. Hurry hurry, cream yourself full of dreams to carry you through the life that's waiting for you outside, when you leave here, to help you last a few days more in that nightmare of things and people. Among the dreams, choose the ones most likely to warm your soul. I have to confess that I picked... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It happened, you see, after the war, when I saw people making money while the others were dying in the trenches. You saw it and you couldn't do anything about it. Then later I was at the League of Nations, and there I saw the light. I really saw the world was ruled by the Golden Calf, by Mammon! Oh, no kidding! Implacably. Social consciousness certainly came to me late. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws..."
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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