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- Louis Ferdinand Céline: French writer
- Ferdinand Foch: French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Original:Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
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Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.
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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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