Prefaces Like Quotes by Lautreamont

“O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.”

— Lautreamont

“He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.”

— Lautréamont

“The perturbations, anxieties, depravations, deaths, exceptions in the physical or moral order, spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations fostered by the will, torments, destruction, confusion,…

— Lautréamont

“In more than one ambuscade, man, that sublime ape, has already pierced my breast with his porphyry lance: a soldier does not exhibit his…

— Lautreamont

“Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.”

— Lautréamont