Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Citations en anglais (Page 4)

Louis-Ferdinand Céline était écrivain et médecin français. Citations en anglais.
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“The populace is a true museum of all the stupidities of the ages: it swallows everything, it admires everything, it preserves everything, it defends everything, it understands nothing.”

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145
L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

“I believed in her body, I didn't believe in her soul. I though of Lola as a charming goldbrick, miles away from the war, miles away from life.”

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Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5

“I clearly see you a tapeworm, but not a cobra, not a cobra at all…no good at the flute! (…) I’ll go applaud you when you finally become a true monster, when you’ll have paid them, the witches, what you have to, their price, so they transmute you, blossom you, into a true phenomenon. Into a tapeworm that plays the flute.”

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To the Fidgeting Lunatic
in Albert Paraz, Le Gala des Vaches, Éditions de l’Élan, Paris, 1948 ; À l'agité du bocal, et autres textes de L.-F. Céline, l'Herne / Carnets de l'Herne ISBN 9782851976567 2006, 85 p. ; To the Fidgeting Lunatic (Céline on Sartre), translation by Constantin Rigas.

“In this society which we are induced to frequent, composed above all of politicians and artists, one cannot realize one's true worth.”

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99
Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)

“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!”

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102
L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

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

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

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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”

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Des pays où personne ne va jamais. Interview of February 1960 with Jean Guenot und Jacques d'Arribehaude.
Reported in Céline à Meudon : transcriptions des entretiens avec Jacques d'Arribehaude et Jean Guenot. Éditions Jean Guenot, 1995 ISBN 2-85405-058-4

“Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts.”

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Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 4

“[The press from right to left, is corrupt. It will say anything if the bribe is large enough]… gloss over events according to the color of the subsidy, undress, attack, traduce, rant, all according to the sum in the envelope. [177]”

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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

“A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple; she'll never go very far.”

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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“Since the end of the period of belief, leaders exalt every defect, every kind of sadism, and gain all the more through their vices: vanity, ambition, war, death in a word.”

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

“[Industrialized man, drunk on alcohol and gasoline, becomes a confusion of sheep, bull and hyena. ] Charming. The least obstructed little asshole looks on himself in the mirror as Jupiter. [18]”

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

“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.”

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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

“Even the richest, the most superb. They continue to offer themselves. Indeed, their life is no more than a perpetual whoredom, more or less decorative, more or less seedy, more or less affected, sumptuous, pretentious.”

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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

“As far as they were concerned, gunfire was nothing but noise. That’s why wars can keep going. Even the people who make them, who fight in them, don’t really get the picture. Even with a bullet in their gut, they’d go on picking up old shoes that “might come in handy.” The way a sheep, lying on its side in a meadow, will keep on grazing with its dying breath. Most people don’t die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.”

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Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 4

“In democratic politics it is money that commands. And the money is Jewish.”

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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

“The rich don't have to kill to eat.”

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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“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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“{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.”

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