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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

~Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

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If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

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With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

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Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: May 27th, 1894

Died: July 1st, 1961

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