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!
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
If youβre twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel β as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them β wherever you go.
Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.
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