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Louis-Ferdinand Céline [selin] war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Arzt.

✵ 27. Mai 1894 – 1. Juli 1961
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„Alles Interessante ereignet sich im Dunkeln, ganz ohne Zweifel. Die wirkliche Geschichte der Menschen ist nicht bekannt.“

Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Reise ans Ende der Nacht, S. 84, Aus dem französischen von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 4. Auflage 2003, ISBN 3 498 00926 5
Original franz.: "Tout ce qui est intéressant se passe dans l'ombre, décidément. On ne sait rien de la véritable histoire des hommes." - Voyage au bout de la nuit

„Die Erfahrung ist eine Blendlaterne, die nur demjenigen leuchtet, der sie trägt.“

Louis-ferdinand Céline

Original franz.: „L’expérience est une lanterne sourde qui n’éclaire que celui qui la porte“ - Des pays où personne ne va jamais. Gespräch von 1960 mit Jean Guenot und Jacques Darribehaude, in: À l’agité du bocal, L’Herne 2006. p. 80

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“Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5
Kontext: Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.

“This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“Medicine is a thankless profession. When you get paid by the rich, you feel like a flunky, by the poor like a thief. How can you take a fee from people who can’t afford to eat or go to the movies? Especially when they’re at their last gasp. It’s not easy. You let it ride. You get soft-hearted. And your ship goes down.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

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

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

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“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”

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“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5

“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“There's no tyrant like a brain.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Death on Credit

Quelle: Death on the Installment Plan

“That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

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Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“An Immense hatred keeps me alive… i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.”

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“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

“A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.”

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Louis-ferdinand Céline buch Reise ans Ende der Nacht

Quelle: Journey to the End of the Night

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