Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont quotes
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“Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.”
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“Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.”
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“Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.”
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“Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!”
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“Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.”
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“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.”
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“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”
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“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
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“Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.”
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“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.”
-- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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