Comte de Lautréamont Quotes

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. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. April 1846 – 24. November 1870   •   Other names Lautréamont
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Les Chants de Maldoror
Comte de Lautréamont
Poésies I
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Famous Comte de Lautréamont Quotes

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

Source: Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies

“I hail you, old ocean! Old ocean, you are the symbol of identity: always equal unto yourself. In essence, you never change, and if somewhere your waves are enraged, farther off in some other zone they are in the most complete calm. You are not like man — who stops in the street to see two bulldogs seize each other by the scruff of the neck, but does not stop when a funeral passes. Man who in the morning is affable and in the evening ill-humoured. Who laughs today and weeps tomorrow. I hail you, old ocean!”

Vieil océan, tu es le symbole de l'identité: toujours égal à toi-même. Tu ne varies pas d'une manière essentielle, et, si tes vagues sont quelque part en furie, plus loin, dans quelque autre zone, elles sont dans le calme le plus complet. Tu n'es pas comme l'homme, qui s'arrête dans la rue, pour voir deux boule-dogues s'empoigner au cou, mais, qui ne s'arrête pas, quand un enterrement passe; qui est ce matin accessible et ce soir de mauvaise humeur; qui rit aujourd'hui et pleure demain. Je te salue, vieil océan!
Les Chants de Maldoror (1972 ed.), p. 13.

“I will leave no memoirs.”

Les Chants de Maldoror (1868)

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