Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Céline) was the pen name of Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. The name Céline was the first name of his grandmother. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 May 1894
CountryFrance
winning political voting
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
feelings solitude kind
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.
reservations
Women always have some mental reservation.
hate hated
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
november rave reason
reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...
journey imaginary
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
sleep insomnia impossible
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
nice doe certain
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! ...
wall two bullshit
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!
sorrow dying
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.
pain journey imagination
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.
intelligent thinking giving
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.
insomnia lines trouble
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
hate men stupidity
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.