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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.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5
Context: Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.

“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“Medicine is a thankless profession. When you get paid by the rich, you feel like a flunky, by the poor like a thief. How can you take a fee from people who can’t afford to eat or go to the movies? Especially when they’re at their last gasp. It’s not easy. You let it ride. You get soft-hearted. And your ship goes down.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“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.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline

“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!”