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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Reported in Céline à Meudon : transcriptions des entretiens avec Jacques d'Arribehaude et Jean Guenot. Éditions Jean Guenot, 1995 ISBN 2-85405-058-4

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