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

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

I will leave no memoirs.

- 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.

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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

- 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…

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wicked…

- 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 o…

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont