Louis-Ferdinand Céline Quotes

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (17)

Birth:	27th May, 1894
Death:	1st July, 1961
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Pamphleteer, Physician

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

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  Experience is a dim lamp which only lights the one who bears it.

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• We’ve no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don’t forget it.

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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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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

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• 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.

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left. Think it over… no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid… antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

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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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• 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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• There’s a point of poverty at which the spirit isn’t with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it’s almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul’s not properly responsible.

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• If you aren’t rich you should always look useful.

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• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

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• 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.

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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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• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.

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