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Louis-ferdinand Céline
Geburtstag: 27. Mai 1894
Todesdatum: 1. Juli 1961
Louis-Ferdinand Céline [selin] war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Arzt.
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„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
„Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!“
— 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
„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.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline
Context: 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.
Chapter 5
„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
Chapter 5
„There's no tyrant like a brain.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
„If you aren't rich you should always look useful.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
„My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan
