Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Maggots Quotes

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The one who talks about the future is a rascal. The present is the only thing that matters. To invoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There's very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who's had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline