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Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, born on April 4, 1846, was a prominent French poet. His poetry is characterized by its unique style and profound connotations, and is considered one of the pioneers of Symbolist poetry. more

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“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

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Book:A Life in Letters
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“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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