Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you . . .
Source: The narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night (1932; tr. 1934; 1966 ed., p. 307).
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, (May 27 1894-1961), French writer, physician; He travelled extensively on medical missions for the League of Nations, and wrote novels in his spare time.