Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
• The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
• One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
• If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.