Comte de Lautréamont

“Poetry must be made by all. Not by one.”

“My poetry will consist in attacking man, that wild beast, and the Creator.”

“Sleep is a coward.”

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

“I will leave no memoirs.”

“O octopus of the silky gaze! You whose soul is inseparable from my own.”

“Judgements on poetry have more value than poetry itself.”

“Man's cry is a rooster's crow, but I am the one who makes him cry.”

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

“I am the son of man and woman. That is astonishing... I thought I was more.”

“The novel is a false genre because it describes passions for their own sake: the moral conclusion is absent.”

“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.”

“I am the son of man and woman. That is astonishing. I thought I was more.”

“The novel is a false genre, because it describes passions for their own sake: the moral conclusion is absent.”

“It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity.”

“He is as handsome as the retractility of the claws of birds of prey.”

“An eternal vaudeville, the fair of life.”

“Poetry must be made by all, not by one.”

“The man who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.”

“Logic is a creator of monstrosities.”