Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes - Page 4

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• The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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• In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Real, Past, Tragedy

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• This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.

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  Men, Inspire, Feelings

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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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  Thinking, Intelligent, Giving

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• History doesn't pass the dishes again.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Dishes

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• When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Our Words, Way, Disaster

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

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  Depressing, Mind, Looks

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• The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

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  Writing, Wine, Kissing

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• For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  War, Passion, Men

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• 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.

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  Boredom, Spy, Life Is

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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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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  Love, Pride, Poodles

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• I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

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  Sick, Bed, Use

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• In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

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  Song, Sleep, Eye

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• Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

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  Night, Scare, Chin Up

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