Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Quotes

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

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Beauty, Beautiful, Encounters

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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.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Sadness, Doubt, Despair

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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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  Real, Sorrow, May

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

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  Farewell, Together, Eternity

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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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  Quality, Fundamentals, Taste

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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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  Drama, Comedy, Philosopher

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• Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

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  Made

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

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  Uprising, Triangles, Arithmetic

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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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  Law, Evil, Stronger

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• I will leave no memoirs.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Memoir

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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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  Order, Sublime, Despair

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