I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineAll that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
Louis-Ferdinand CelinePeople don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineSince life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. Thereโs no such thing as intelligent vanity. Itโs an instinct. And youโll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.
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