Louis-Ferdinand Céline quotes - page 2

Above all communism is a poetic vocation. Without poetry, without a burning, purifying altruistic fervor, communism is only a farce, the receptacle of all anger, of all plebian resentment, the decadent playhouse of sharks, of all the tragic pimps, of all Jews, performing their Talmudic imposture. [130]. (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
In democratic politics it is money that commands. And the money is Jewish. [180]. View quote
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Politics has putrified mankind more profoundly in the last three centuries than in the whole of pre-history. We were more united in the middle ages than we are today; then a common spirit took form.[16]. View quote
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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. View quote
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When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak. View quote
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People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. View quote
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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 Céline)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! View quote
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It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened. View quote
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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. View quote
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! View quote
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An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. View quote
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That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying. View quote
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Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. View quote
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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 Céline)
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. View quote
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When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. View quote
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You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. View quote
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The natives, by and large, had to be driven to work with clubs, they preserved that much dignity, whereas the whites, perfected by public education, worked of their own free will. View quote
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