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
Interpretation
This quote illustrates the anguish of facing harsh truths, particularly mortality, and the struggle between accepting reality or escaping it with deceit.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's quote confronts the painful nature of truth, particularly the truth of our own mortality. It highlights the existential dilemma of choosing between the discomfort that comes with acknowledging life's realities and the temptation to evade those truths through lies. Celine suggests a deep personal struggle with the concept of death, revealing a preference for honesty, even if it brings suffering, over the false comfort of denial.
In practice
During a philosophical debate, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of confronting uncomfortable truths.
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.
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.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.
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!
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift that one simply feels constantly in gratitude. So this is my message for you: live in the moment, herenow. That's why I call it divine purity
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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