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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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Power
Alliance
Evil
Gravity
Laws
Will
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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Thought
Action
Strength
Thoughts
Contradiction
Forget
Mind
Nothingness
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?
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Beauty
Man
Pride
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Family
Men
Logic
Utopia
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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Health
Intelligence
Quality
Genius
Balance
Taste
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Punishment
Reward
Sleep
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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Beginning
Despair
Doubt
Melancholy
Sadness
Wickedness