Quotes by : Comte de Lautréamont

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.....

Plût au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’il lit, trouve,....

The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves....

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily....

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly....

One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child....

I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled with the crowd,....

Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the....

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.