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Comte de Lautréamont
7 quotes
“I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity and pride by modesty.”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poésies I (1870)
“God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked pages; for, unless he should bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a sustained mental effort at least as strong as his distrust, the lethal fumes of this book shall dissolve his soul as water does sugar.”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hail you, old ocean! Old ocean, you are the symbol of identity: always equal unto yourself. In essence, you never change, and if somewhere your waves are enraged, farther off in some other zone they are in the most complete calm. You are not like man — who stops in the street to see two bulldogs seize each other by the scruff of the neck, but does not stop when a funeral passes. Man who in the morning is affable and in the evening ill-humoured. Who laughs today and weeps tomorrow. I hail you, old ocean!”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1972 ed., p. 13
“There are those whose purpose in writing is, by means of the noble qualities of heart which their imagination invents or which they themselves may have, to seek the plaudits of other human beings. For my part, I use my genius to depict the delights of cruelty: delights which are not transitory or artificial; but which began with man and will end with him. Cannot genius be allied with cruelty in the secret resolutions of Providence? Or can one, being cruel, not have genius?”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After some hours, the dogs, exhausted by running round, almost dead, their tongues hanging out, set upon one another and, not knowing what they are doing, tear one another into thousands of pieces with incredible rapidity. Yet they do not do this out of cruelty.”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will leave no memoirs.”
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source