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Quotes About Lautréamont

The truth is that Lautréamont had only to look the iron man forged by capitalist society squarely in the eye to perceive the monster, the everyday monster, his hero.
~ Aimé Césaire
Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.
~ César Aira
It is not easy to bring about the death of the entire race of men, and the law is there; but one may, with patience, exterminate the human ants one by one.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
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