Louis-Ferdinand Céline Quotes
1894–1961 France
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961) was a French author.
- France
- Novelists
- Physicians
Also known as: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts.
I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.
Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang (‘argot’) exists not anymore.
You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.
The one thing any of us really cared about was living for one more hour, one more hour is a big deal in a world where everything has reduced itself to murder.
"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."
I should give all the works of Baudelaire for a female Olympic swimmer.
I believed in her body, I didn't believe in her soul. I thought of Lola as a charming goldbrick, miles away from the war, miles away from life.
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple; she'll never go very far.― [7]
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable." ― [6]
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.[16]
In this society which we are induced to frequent, composed above all of politicians and artists, one cannot realize one's true worth.[99]
Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)
It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.[7]
Love is infinity - come down to poodles' level.[1]
Everything interesting takes place in the dark; there is no doubt about it. We know nothing of the true story of the men. ― [6]
In the kingdom of the "fallen in the shit" the lunatics are king. [222-23]
L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)
The three radios, the six cars, the four refrigerators, the seven telephones in each of the 300,000 Jewish households, and the super-television![51]
L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)