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 I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. Louis-Ferdinand Celine loving-you battle mean This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody. Louis-Ferdinand Celine feelings men inspire If you aren't rich you should always look useful. Louis-Ferdinand Celine rich advice looks When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it. Louis-Ferdinand Celine luxury comfort letting-go When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. Louis-Ferdinand Celine impossible insomnia sleep Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief. Louis-Ferdinand Celine endless pleasure trouble There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. Louis-Ferdinand Celine vanity intelligent men Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. Louis-Ferdinand Celine carpe-diem people years 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 depressing mind looks 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 forget it. Louis-Ferdinand Celine intelligent giving thinking Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable. Louis-Ferdinand Celine wells light knows They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people. Louis-Ferdinand Celine ocean earth people A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me. Louis-Ferdinand Celine kissing pigs fall When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. Louis-Ferdinand Celine disaster our-words way To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. Louis-Ferdinand Celine philosophical philosophy believe The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love. Louis-Ferdinand Celine distance dream art All in all, death is something like marriage. Louis-Ferdinand Celine There's no tyrant like a brain. Louis-Ferdinand Celine tyrants brain With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. Louis-Ferdinand Celine men two past 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 end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night. Louis-Ferdinand Celine chin-up scare night
