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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The whole business...

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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.

Source: The narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night (1932; tr. 1934; ed. 1966, p. 328).
-- 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.


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