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Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes

French Writer May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961

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you've probably noticed that after the first half-century practically everybody gets leaky, they can't keep it in ... hence the cruelty of long drawn-out meals and drinking sessions ... ships and apartment houses are the same ... everything starts to leak ... sphincters, bladders, drain pipes, bowels ... the half-century is merciless for ladies and gentlemen ... worse for dogs and cats! ... with them it comes sooner! ... five ... six years ... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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! ... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
...the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight..."
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror. 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
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 cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past."
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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! Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Lie, copulate, and die."
Lie, copulate, and die. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then..."
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "When you write, you should put your skin on the table."
When you write, you should put your skin on the table. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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