Matthew

“I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd. It’s the nightmare of having to represent the halt subhuman we were fobbed off with as a small-size universal ideal, a superman from morning to night.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Kissing is more intimate than fucking.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“A body always tells the truth, that’s why it’s usually depressing and disgusting to look at.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night