“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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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)
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Louis-ferdinand Céline88
French writer 1894–1961Related quotes
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El hombre habla de todo y habla de todo como si el conocimiento de todo estuviese todo en él.
Voces (1943)
“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”
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