Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Comte de Lautreamont was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay.

His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poesies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.

Date of birth:
4th April, 1846
Date of death:
24th November, 1870
"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
Topic(s): Beauty
"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
Topic(s): Intelligence
"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
Topic(s): Strength

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