21 ordspråk av Louis Ferdinand Celine
Louis Ferdinand Celine
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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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.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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Living, just by itself / what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting /or he'll come along and nibble your brain.
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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'yes', all's well. That is enough.
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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.
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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.
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The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy
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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.
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