“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.” DoubtSadnessDespairDegreesMelancholyWickednessSadness And LoveSadness And Anger Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“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.” FormLawEvilImpossibleStonesStrongerGravityAlliances Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” BeautifulChanceBeautyMachinesTablesEncountersUmbrellaSewingChance Encounters Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.” TogetherEternityFarewell Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“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.” CertainDifficultComedyDramaPhilosopherComicDramaticJester Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!” KnownGeometryLuminousTrinityArithmeticAlgebraUprisingTrianglesGrandiose Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“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.” LittlesDesireOrderLiteratureReaderDespairSomething NewRemedySublimeRegisterExaggerated Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.” MayRealMatterHigherSorrowHundredRaises Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.” QualityTasteFundamentalsPlusUltras Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
