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

-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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“Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.”
“The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.”
“When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. Â You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Â Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. Â They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.”

Source : "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.
“Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.”
“I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.”
“But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.”
“Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.”
“When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.”

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