Louis-ferdinand Céline: Quotes about love

Louis-ferdinand Céline was French writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Louis-ferdinand Céline: 176 quotes12 likes

“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

“I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.”

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

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

“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.”

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

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable.”

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

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

“Spiritually we are at ground zero, sunk, bored to perdition. All our arts prove it. Since the renaissance, so mechanized, we repeat with almost futile variants the same hackneyed sentimentalities (we call them eternal values!) Love! Re-love No Love! More Love!”

Louis-ferdinand Céline

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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

“Love is infinity - come down to poodles'level.”

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

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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.”

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

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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“{Music symbolizes the loss of faith, of common belief. ] The small, intimate church is closed, the organs are dead, it is sadder than before. Only those whom fate designs for the eternal mass of infinite love remain. They compose only a very small chapel of clarity in space and time.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline

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Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)