To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.
Interpretation
Travel enhances creativity and imagination, distinguishing it from mere illusion and suffering.
This quote by Louis-Ferdinand Celine emphasizes the profound impact of travel on one's imagination and creativity. It suggests that while many experiences in life can lead to delusion and pain, the act of traveling fosters a genuine creative journey that is rooted in the strength of our imagination, allowing us to transcend mere physical experiences and explore deeper realms of thought and emotion.
In practice
During a travel workshop, I shared, 'To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain.'
Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. 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.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, itβs indispensable.
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
Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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