They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldnโt go any futrther because of the ocean. Thatโs France, thatโs the French people.
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 CelineThere's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineNot much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine