Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. Louis-Ferdinand Celine More Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Celine More Quotes From Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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 Celine flavor kitchen vices The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is. Louis-Ferdinand Celine hated hate The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. Louis-Ferdinand Celine being-scared scared genius I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again. Louis-Ferdinand Celine anxiety too-much mind 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 Celine rights love-is thinking You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. Louis-Ferdinand Celine shadow way past That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying. Louis-Ferdinand Celine sorrow dying A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all. Louis-Ferdinand Celine each-day knowing men There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free!. Louis-Ferdinand Celine advantage nice doe The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. Louis-Ferdinand Celine hate business people Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible. Louis-Ferdinand Celine madness normal lying I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude. Louis-Ferdinand Celine solitude kind feelings Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future. Louis-Ferdinand Celine jokes goes-on believe When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit. Louis-Ferdinand Celine special long people All great innovations are built on rejections. Louis-Ferdinand Celine rejected rejection innovation Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave. Louis-Ferdinand Celine november rave reason Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine. Louis-Ferdinand Celine medicine taken thinking My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. Louis-Ferdinand Celine lines trouble insomnia If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then Louis-Ferdinand Celine toads duty might whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah! Louis-Ferdinand Celine wall two people
