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Louis-ferdinand Céline
Geburtstag:27. Mai 1894
Todesdatum:1. Juli 1961
Zitate Louis-ferdinand Céline
„Alles Interessante ereignet sich im Dunkeln, ganz ohne Zweifel. Die wirkliche Geschichte der Menschen ist nicht bekannt.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Reise ans Ende der Nacht, S. 84, Aus dem französischen von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbeck bei Hamburg, 4. Auflage 2003, ISBN 3 498 00926 5
„If you’ve lived this long, it’s because you’ve squashed any poetry you had in you.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
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.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
„It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
„Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
„The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
„There's no tyrant like a brain.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
„Not 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 Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
„There is 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 ever try to understand what we’re here for. They just don’t care. Americans or not, they sleep no matter what, they’re bloated mollusks, no sensibility, no trouble with their conscience.
I’d seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I’d better go out, I said to myself, I’d better go out again. Maybe I’ll meet Robinson. Naturally that was an idiotic idea, but I dreamed it up as an excuse for going out again, because no matter how I tossed and turned on my narrow bed, I couldn’t snatch the tiniest scrap of sleep. Even masturbation, at times like that, provides neither comfort nor entertainment. Then you're really in despair.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
