“ 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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ 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
“ L'amour c'est comme l'alcool, plus on est impuissant et saoul et plus on se croit fort et malin, et sûr de ses droits. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling wit… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ ...apparently "London" gave out my address! that's what they're saying...not just London, though! Brazzaville, too!...and said that I'm a dirty pornographer...a letch besides being the most despicable… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler! Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ 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 fo… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll still come out to refute me! make claims!...that nothing got bombed!...squished! powdered! that the… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn't quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and the dead. Hurr… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it lasts a whole lifetime. Rich people are drunk in a different way, they can't understand this frenzy ab… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, mangy, caterwauling pain in the ass! I'd rather have the thing in bed with me than see it suffer on m… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
