Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
("Journey to the End of the Night")
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You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with putrid chicken innards. Well, take it from me, a man is just like that, except that he's fatter and hungrier and can move around, and inside there's a dream.Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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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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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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!
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Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.
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There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
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