The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the body as soon as the body is sick or things are going badly.
 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932). copy citation

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Author Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Source Journey to the End of the Night
Topic health vanity
Date 1932
Language English
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Note Translated by Ralph Manheim
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