Louis Ferdinand CelineThinkers

Being hated is not all hated — The more one is hated, the happier one seems.

Distance is the soul of reality.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Forgiveness is too easy. One is always too ready to forgive.

Love is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite.

Philosophizing is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Philosophy is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. The truth of this world is to die. You must choose: Either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.