My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. Louis-Ferdinand Celine More Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Celine More Quotes From Louis-Ferdinand Celine People avenge themselves for the favors done them. Louis-Ferdinand Celine favors done people We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life. Louis-Ferdinand Celine kings hero talking People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. Louis-Ferdinand Celine delirium-tremens reality people 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 evil pay people Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! Louis-Ferdinand Celine poodles dignity love-is Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. Louis-Ferdinand Celine lamps light bears Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself Louis-Ferdinand Celine pain dying lying Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him! Louis-Ferdinand Celine hate men two Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. Louis-Ferdinand Celine poor hate people To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength. Louis-Ferdinand Celine pain imagination journey I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects. Louis-Ferdinand Celine bed sick use There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible. Louis-Ferdinand Celine body soul talking 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 forgiveness forgiving doe Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. Louis-Ferdinand Celine poor desire men Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!. Louis-Ferdinand Celine alcoholics life-is thinking The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. Louis-Ferdinand Celine sadness people way In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. Louis-Ferdinand Celine tragedy real past Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride. Louis-Ferdinand Celine poodles pride love History doesn't pass the dishes again. Louis-Ferdinand Celine dishes 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 and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them. Louis-Ferdinand Celine race heart war
