“If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!” IfsMightDutyToads Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.” IfsWorldYearsWholeCertainAliveSeeingThousandHatredWhole WorldImmenseThousand Years Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.” IfsLinesWrittenTroubleInsomnia Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.” IfsBelieveGoes OnJokes Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“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.” IfsMenShouldLittlesEndsKnowingEach DayGutsResigned Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.” IfsUseFeltObjectsBedPercentHundredSickEdgesLegsRidiculousHungUnimportantOver The Edge Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.” IfsShouldLooksRichAdviceGood Advice Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.” IfsSoulBodySpiritTalkingPovertyResponsibleUnbearable Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.” IfsMenBelieveWellsStillsEnoughAsksSleepAnswersLive ByUnhappiness Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.” IfsLifeLooksHappensLife IsBrainExcitingBusyBoredomClassroomSpyWhatever Happens Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine