Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Quotes

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

Sad, Sadness, Doubt

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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Good, Power, Evil

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Family, Great, Men

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Sleep, Others, Reward

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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Health, Alone, Through

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?
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Beauty, Beautiful, Why

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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Strength, Mind, Forget

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: April 4, 1846

Died: November 24, 1870

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