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.
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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About Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Louis-Ferdinand CelineOne 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.