Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.


Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) (1932)


Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.