JTA wrote:
Journey to the End of the Night
“And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
“In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
“They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
*Americans
“Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd. It’s the nightmare of having to represent the halt subhuman we were fobbed off with as a small-size universal ideal, a superman from morning to night.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
“Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
Man I'm so excited to hit up the used book store tomorrow. Reading Journey has gotten me back into the groove again.
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.