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Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes

French Writer May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961

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Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
But maybe it's wrong of me to complain? I'm alive after all? and I lose an enemy or two every day? cancer, apoplexy, gluttony? it's a pleasure the number that pass on!? I'm not hard to please? a name!? another!? there are good things in life? Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to..."
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth..."
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not? Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily..."
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I've never been able to forget the infinite little smile of pure affection that danced across his livid face. Enough gaiety to fill the universe. Few people past twenty preserve any of the affection, the affection of animals. This world isn't what we expected. So our looks change! They change plenty! We made a mistake! And turned into a thorough stinker in next to no time! Past twenty it shows in our face! A mistake! Our face is just a mistake! Louis-Ferdinand Celine
But when you are week the best way to fortify yourself is to strip the people you fear of the last bit of prestige you’re still inclined to give them. Learn to consider them they are, worse than they are in fact and from every point of view. That will release you, set you free, protect you more than you can possibly imagine. It will give you another self. There will be two of you. That will strip their words and deeds of the obscene mystical fascination that weakens you and makes you... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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