Louis-Ferdinand Céline Quotes

• It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

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• Life must go on, even if it’s no joke…just pretend to believe in the future.

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• The English are funny and peculiar, half-clergymen and half-little boys.

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• The poor—that is, the people whose death interests no one.

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• Most people only die at the last moment; others begin early and take twenty years and sometimes more. These are the most miserable people on earth.

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• It is the present that counts. To invoke one’s posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

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• For those who have no imagination, death means little. For those who have one, death is often too much.

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• To travel is useful. It engages the imagination. Everything else is deceitful and boring. Our own voyage is entirely imaginary. And therein lies its force.

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• Between the penis and mathematics…there’s nothing. Nothing!

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• Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn’t get you anywhere.

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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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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (27)

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

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