A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the … - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

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.

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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.

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Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

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I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me. . . and plenty of other people. . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

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To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

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The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

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