1. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . The name Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. Céline is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, more..

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"The truth of this world is to die." #Truth

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#Riches

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"The earth just doesn't want men." #World

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"People always seem to be struggling in a general suicide." #Suicide

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"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." #Christians and Christianity

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"To Croak quite free, that at least is man's work." #Freedom

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"Life is nothing more than this disgusting experience where one's personality breaks up." #Experience

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#Character

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"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." #Life and Living

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak." #Hatred

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it." #Experience

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"Men seem to feel a huge, absolutely unbearable terror that they will find themselves one fine day alone, quite alone, faced with nothingness." #Drugs

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win." #Voting

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"At a certain point of their misery people don't care a rap about understanding... they just feel." #America

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"Since the flood all Wars have been fought to the cries of optimism." #War

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"Time's embroidery is music." #Music

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished." #Books - Reading

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"Like a dog, he had no idea of death." #Death and Dying

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline:"You delve deeper into the night at first and start to panic, but you want to know all the same, and after that you don't come out of the depths." #Inequality

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