“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.” MenShouldArtFactsDreamLyingInterestDemandDistanceDeceptionRefugeCanvasOnly LoveUnattractiveForegroundFar Distance Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.” PeopleWayTryingHumansDoneEnoughHandsLife IsLyingDiesRealizingForgetRecordsWorstLifetimeDefeatWittyGravesDepartmentToesPitsOne WordCurls Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“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.” MenEndsEnoughAbleEarthLyingDiesAsksLeftSilenceGoneYouthTruth IsMadnessEndlessAgony Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.” LyingNaturalTruth IsNormalMadness Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“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” WorldAblePainLyingDiesDyingThis WorldTruth Is Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
