Comte de Lautréamont Quotes

One can only judge the beauty of life through death.

Poetry should be composed by everyone. Not by one. Poor Hugo!

If Cleopatra’s morality had been less short, the face of the world would have been altered. Her nose would not thereby have grown longer.

A critic must attack the form, never the foundation of your ideas and phrases. See to it.

If you are miserable, you should not say so to the reader. Keep it for yourself.

Me, I do not like women! Nor even hermaphrodites! I need beings who resemble me, on whose foreheads nobility is engraved in sharp and unerasable characters.