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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine on forgiveness
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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine on poetry
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. Louis-Ferdinand Céline on business