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Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Aging category:
- Journey to the End of the Night...
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? (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Anxiety category:
- Journey to the End of the Night...
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. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Deception category:
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. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Drunkenness category:
- Journey to the End of the Night...
Love is like liquor. The drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Experience category:
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Gender category:
- Journey to the End of the Night...
Lots of men are like that; their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Genius category:
The Church: A Comedy in Five Acts...
The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Happiness category:
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'yes,' all's well. That is enough. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Life category:
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Loneliness category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
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. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Money category:
If you aren't rich you should always look useful. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Politics category:
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)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Problems category:
-North...
Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Rejection category:
I think all great innovations are built on rejections. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Sadness category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Sleep category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Solitude category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Suffering category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
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)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Travel category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Tyranny category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
There's no tyrant like a brain. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Vanity category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
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. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Words category:
-Journey to the End of the Night...
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - From the Writing category:
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
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