Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. Ducasse died at the age of 24.

French - Poet | April 4, 1846 - November 24, 1870

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Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

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 dramatic comedy.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont