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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Living, just by...
Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy...
To philosophize is...
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly...
The foreground in...
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive. . . Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed...
Life is filigree...
Life is filigree work. . . . What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that...
The more one...
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
Source: In The Speaker's...
The whole business...
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try...
Never believe straight...
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. ...
To hell with...
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.
Source:...
The novel can't...
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on...
The poetry of...
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is...