In this society which we are induced to frequent, composed above all of politicians and artists, one cannot realize one's true worth. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

The populace is a true museum of all the stupidities of the ages: it swallows everything, it admires everything, it preserves everything, it defends everything, it understands nothing.

{Music symbolizes the loss of faith, of common belief.] The small, intimate church is closed, the organs are dead, it is sadder than before. Only those whom fate designs for the eternal mass of infinite love remain. They compose only a very small chapel of clarity in space and time.