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I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.


Ferdinand de Saussure

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LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more ...
FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
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