Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. Translated by Ralph Manheim, New Directions Publishing, 1983, p. 6.
The minister had refused to be pressured by the George W. Bush Administration to sign an agreement with the US agreeing never to turn over an American or foreign national working for America to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Even if a Costa Rican or other non-American were working for an American Agency as an informant, agent, or other role, the country could not respect the treaty obligations that they had made with regard to the ICC. Costa Rica was punished losing $400,000 aid. Nations were so punished while the State Department was spending huge sums to remedy negative opinion that so many nations had developed for the US during the George W. Bush administration. See {585493},65901 & {585495}, for more quotations on this. The US did not join the ICC Treaty as in a some countries political considerations and different ethical values have labeled some American legitimate behavior as criminal and have attempted to hold individuals responsible for carrying out lawful orders
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (/seɪˈliːn/ say-LEEN, French: [selin] (listen)) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957) Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language…what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
