“ The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay...she missed out on all that...like me, her son...a lifetime of sacrifice!...the… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ 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… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with putrid chicken innards. Well, take it from me, a man is just like that, except that he's fatter and… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Fine! Fine! I'm listening...but it's not very interesting!... "Oh, that's what you think! that's what you think! but nothing is very interesting, dear Professor Y! jot this down! take some notes!" "Wh… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ 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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been ab… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough mad… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. Louis-Ferdinand Celine