We are, by nature, so futile that distraction alone can prevent us from dying altogether.
Louis Ferdinand Celine
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
hate find
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy
poetry war heroism wealthy
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
worth life transparency work written
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
rejection great
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
people music
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.
forgiveness life
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 thetimes time
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.
poetry war
I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.
character war
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.
pain truth
nature
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.
man theend
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
light experience
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
man
The natives, by and large, had to be driven to work with clubs, they preserved that much dignity, whereas the whites, perfected by public education, worked of their own free will.
work the-public education
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