Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Jacques Rigaut.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Jacques Rigaut was a French surrealist poet. Born in Paris, he was part of the Dadaist movement. His works frequently talked about suicide and he came to regard its successful completion as his occupation. In 1929 at the age of 30, as he had announced, Rigaut shot himself, using a ruler to be sure the bullet would pass through his heart.
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.
Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.