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1. "To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe." ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

2. "Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself." ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

3. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it." ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

4. "The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so." ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

5. "If you aren't rich you should always look useful." ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

6. "I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

7. "Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

8. "...the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

9. "When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

10. "Les gens riches à Paris demeurent ensemble, leurs quartiers, en bloc, forment une tranche de gâteau urbain dont la pointe vient toucher au Louvre, cependant que le rebord rebondi s'arrête aux arbres entre le Pont d'Auteuil et la Porte des Ternes. Voilà. C'est le bon morceau. Tout le reste n'est que peine et fumier." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

11. "Tout ça c'est des regrets qui ne font pas bouillir la marmite." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

12. "so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

13. "Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah, it's an awful thing... and being young doesn't help any... when you notice for the first time... the way you lose people as you go along ... the buddies you'll never see again... never again... when you notice that they've disappeared like dreams... that it's all over... finished... that you too will get lost someday... a long way off but inevitably... in the awful torrent of things and people... of the days and shapes... that pass... that never stop..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

14. "Lie, copulate, and die." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

15. "Whether you're making love to the ladies or postulating the infinite, you'll still get all flabby one day!" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

16. "Telling it all after the fact...easier said than done!...much easier!" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

17. "In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

18. "Buy Fable! the book that rejuvenates your soul! makes your belly belly-laugh! turns your cares to dust!...likewise your moods, woes an wounds!...turns everything rosy, deflates spleen and bile! pocondria! not just any old work! not just any old words! Fable!You gotta be categorical." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

19. "You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

20. "Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

21. "troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

22. "La jeunesse vraie, la seule, c'est d'aimer tout le monde sans distinction, cela seulement est vrai, cela seulement est jeune et nouveau." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

23. "People avenge themselves for the favors done them." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

24. "She knew her duty inside and out. The prosperity of the cash drawer brought happiness to husband and wife. Not that Madame Puta was bad looking, not at all, she could even, like so many others, have been rather pretty, but she was so careful, so distrustful that she stopped short of beauty just as she stopped short of life—her hair was a little too well dressed, her smile a little too facile and sudden, and her gestures a bit too abrupt or too furtive. You racked your brains trying to figure out what was too calculated about her and why you always felt uneasy when she came near you. This instinctive revulsion that shopkeepers inspire in anyone who goes near them who knows what's what, is one of the few consolations for being as down at heel as people who don't sell anything to anybody tend to be." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

25. "It is, I believe, one of the few dangerous forms of eccentricity, a highly contagious mania, to be precise, of the rampant social variety! In your friend's case, we may not yet be dealing with out-and-out insanity . . . No . . . Maybe his trouble is only exaggerated conviction . . . But the contagious manias are well known to me! . . . I've known a good many sufferers from conviction mania . . . Of many different types . . . And in the last analysis, those who talk about justice seem to be the maddest of the lot! . . . At first, I must confess, I took a certain interest in justice fanatics . . . Today those particular maniacs annoy and exasperate me more than I can tell . . . Don't you feel the same way? . . . Human beings show a strange aptitude for transmitting this mania. It terrifies me, and we find it, mind you, in all human beings!" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

26. "You can be anywhere in the world ... under confetti, under bombs, in cellar or stratosphere, prison or embassy, on the equator in Trondhjem, you'll never go wrong, you'll get a direct response ... all they want of you is that famous Parisian vagina! la Parisienne! your man sees himself wedged between her thighs in epileptic bliss, full nuptial flight, inundating the barisienne with his enthusiasm ..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

27. "Love...is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

28. "A bien calculer quand on songe, c'est peut-être ça L'Espérance ? Et l'avenir esthétique aussi ! Des guerres qu'on saura plus pourquoi !... De plus en plus formidables ! Qui laisseront plus personne tranquille !... que tout le monde en crèvera... deviendra des héros sur place... et poussière par-dessus le marché !... Qu'on débarrassera la Terre... Qu'on a jamais servi à rien... Le nettoyage par l'Idée..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

29. "Sizi akli basinda sanmalarinin en iyi yolu bayagi piskin olmaktir. Iyiden iyiye piskinseniz mesele yok, o zaman hemen hemen ne yapsaniz yeridir, ne isterseniz, çogunluk sizden yanadir ve kimin deli olup olmadigina karar veren de çogunluktur" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

30. "My one and only chicken, bequeathed to me by Robinson, dreaded the noon hour the same as I did, he'd go back in with me. For three weeks the chicken lived with me like that, following me like a dog, clucking constantly, seeing snakes wherever he went. One day of extreme boredom, I ate him." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

31. "Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

32. "Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

33. "She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

34. "Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

35. "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; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

36. "Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down to it, no matter where and when, peace, dead calm, wars, convulsions... so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them... shovelsful!... but hearts?... very rare!" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

37. "Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ..." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

38. "Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

39. "That's how I am! eyes peeled, scientific! first things first! the big ones! the small ones!...if they're going to behead you...for example!...you don't take your eyes of the guillotine!...look, the blade's dull!-Executioner! you shout, hey, you lazy fucker! don't you have anyone sharpening that thing?And the executioner scurries off, shit-assed and sheepish!" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

40. "Her kentte böyle yerler vardir iste, o kadar sersemce çirkindirler ki, orada hemen her zaman yalnizsinizdir" ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

41. "...Hiçbir sey açiklanamaz. Dünyanin tek bildigi sey uyurken bir o yana bir bu yana dönen biri gibi sizi öldürmektir, dünya uyurken üstünüze abandiginda, uyuyan birinin pireleri ezdigi gibi. Böylesine bir ölüm pek ahmakça olurdu, diye düsündüm, herkes gibi yani. Insanlara güvenmek demek kendini azicik öldürtmekle esdegerdir." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

42. "Nos dias de hoje, ainda me acontece encontrar Musyne, casualmente, a cada dois anos ou quase, tal como a maioria das criaturas que no passado conhecemos muito bem. É o prazo de que precisamos, dois anos, para nos darmos conta, com uma só olhada, mas essa aí inenganável, como o instinto, das feiuras que um rosto, ainda que delicioso em seu tempo, acumulou.Ficamos como que hesitantes um instante à sua frente, e depois findamos por aceitá-lo tal como ele ficou, o rosto, com essa desarmonia crescente, abjeta, de todo o conjunto. Temos de dizer sim a essa cuidadosa e lenta caricatura burilada por dois anos. Aceitar o tempo, esse quadro de nós. Podemos então dizer que nos reconhecemos inteiramente (como uma nota de dinheiro estrangeira que hesitamos em pegar à primeira vista), que não nos enganamos de caminho, que de fato seguimos a verdadeira estrada, sem nos termos consertado, a infalível estrada durante mais dois anos, a estrada da podridão. E é só isso." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

43. "Öyle büsbütün korkagim, Lola, savasi ve içinde ne varsa hepsini reddediyorum… Ben savas var diye üzülmüyorum… Ben kaderime razi olmuyorum… Ben bu konuda sizlanip durmuyorum… Onu oldugu gibi reddediyorum, içindeki insanlarla birlikte, onlarla, onunla hiçbir alisverisim olsun istemiyorum. Isterlerse dokuz yüz doksan bes milyon kisi olsunlar ve ben tek basima kalayim, yine de haksiz olan onlar, Lola, hakli olan da benim, çünkü ne istedigini bilen bir tek ben varim: ben artik ölmek istemiyorum." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

44. "Perdemos a maior parte de nossa juventude por conta das inabilidades. Saltava aos olhos que ela ia me abandonar, minha bem-amada, de vez e em breve. Eu ainda não havia aprendido que existem duas humanidades muito diferentes, a dos ricos e a dos pobres. Precisei, como tantos outros, de vinte anos e da guerra para aprender a me manter na minha categoria, para perguntar o preço das coisas e dos seres antes de tocá-los, e em especial antes de desejá-los." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

45. "La raza, eso que tú llamas así, es solamente esa gran pandilla de gente mísera como yo, legañosos, pulgosos, ateridos, que han acabado aquí perseguidos por el hambre, la peste, los tumores y el frío, llegados tras ser vencidos de los demás rincones del mundo. No podían ir más lejos por el mar. Pues eso es nuestra nación y esos son nuestros compatriotas." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

46. "Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

47. "W malej jadalni, tuz obok, ujrzalem ojca, który chodzil od jednej sciany do drugiej. Widac bylo, ze jeszcze nie wypracowal sobie odpowiedniej postawy, ze nie byl do konca gotów na te okolicznosc. Byc moze czekal, az wydarzenia same sie wyklaruja, i ze latwiej mu bedzie wtedy cos postanowic. Trwal tak, i stal jak nad przepascia, niezdecydowany. Ludzie przechodza od jednej sztuki do drugiej. W miedzyczasie sztuka nie jest jeszcze gotowa, a ludzie nie potrafia dobrze jeszcze odróznic jej zarysów, nie znaja ról, jakie maja w niej odegrac, wiec stoja tak, z opuszczonymi rekami, przed tym, co sie dzieje na ich oczach, z instynktem zlozonym jak parasol, poruszajac sie niezbornie, zredukowani do samych siebie, to znaczy, ze zredukowani do nicosci." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

48. "Somos, por naturaleza, tan fútiles, que solo las distracciones pueden impedirnos de verdad morir." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

49. "Gelecekten söz eden her kimse namussuzdur,tek geçerli olan güncel olandir.Kendi ölümsüzlügüne deginmek,solucanlara söylev çekmeye benzer." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

50. "Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future." ~ Louis Ferdinand Céline

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