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Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Algebra Arithmetic Geometry Grandiose Known Luminous Sense Triangle Trinity Whoever Without You

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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

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Topics: Alliance Could Escape Evil Form Good Gravity Impossible Laws Power Stone Stronger Than Will

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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

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Topics: Beginning Cruel Degrees Despair Doubt Melancholy Sadness Start Wickedness

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Action Aim Between Captured Contradiction Distinguish Down Educate Escape Forget Makes Me Mind Myself Nothingness Only Remember Strength Thought Thoughts Times Which Write I Write

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The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

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Topics: Family Great Logic Mediocre Men Most Universal Utopia Worthy

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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

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Topics: Others Punishment Reward Sanction Sleep Some

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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Alone Balance Faculties Fundamental Genius Health Intelligence Other Plus Qualities Quality Sums Supreme Taste Through Up Which

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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Beautiful Beauty Believes Centuries Considered Does Face He Himself His Look Man Only Out Own Pride Rather Really Scorn Suppose Suspects Throughout Why

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Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Made Must Poetry

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I will leave no memoirs.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Leave Memoirs Will

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 4th, 1846

Died: November 24th, 1870

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