“Your system of producing wealth, factories, mines, cooperatives will fall apart, like everything else, under the attacks of the people, in the delirious, popular boulimia.”

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

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French writer 1894–1961

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