Sunday, July 26, 2015

Miscellaneous quotation

"Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littré says so, and he's never wrong.

And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.

It's on the other side of life."

--Louis-Ferdinand Céline (tr. Ralph Manheim), "Journey to the End of the Night"