Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineMy trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
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 CelineWell, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
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