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 CelineI warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineTo philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineMaybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah, it's an awful thing... and being young doesn't help any... when you notice for the first time... the way you lose people as you go along ... the buddies you'll never see again... never again... when you notice that they've disappeared like dreams... that it's all over... finished... that you too will get lost someday... a long way off but inevitably... in the awful torrent of things and people... of the days and shapes... that pass... that never stop.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine