10 Quotes by Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

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

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.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

I will leave no memoirs.

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

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.