Top 32 Comte De Lautreamont Quotes

#1. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

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#2. She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.

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#3. Laugh, but weep at the same time. If you cannot weep with your eyes, weep with your mouth. If this is still impossible, urinate.

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#4. 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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#5. Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

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#6. I set my genius to portray the pleasures of cruelty! These are no fickle, artificial delights, they began with man and with him they will die.

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#7. When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

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#8. Poetry should be made by all and not by one.

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#9. The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

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#10. Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.

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#11. Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on your infundibuliform anus. It is enough that the shameful and almost incurable maladies which besiege you should bring with them their unfailing punishments.

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#12. I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists ... Up till now, misfortune has been described in order to inspire terror and pity. I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries ... As long as my friends do not die, I will not speak of death.

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#13. I will leave no memoirs.

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#14. Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

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#15. O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.

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#16. Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!

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#17. 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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#18. He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

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#19. Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

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#20. ... the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.

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#21. 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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#22. Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

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#23. We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

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#24. ( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!

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#25. As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

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#26. 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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#27. Genius guarantees the faculties of the heart. Man is no less immortal than the soul. Great thoughts spring from reason! Fraternity is not a myth. Newborn children know nothing of life, not even greatness. In misfortune, friends increase.

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#28. I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.

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#29. Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

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#30. The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

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#31. When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.

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#32. Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

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