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The cult of Humanity, with its rites of Freedom and Equality, always struck me as a revival of those ancient cults in which gods were like animals or had animal heads.
“I whose holy sperm embalms the mountains, the lakes, the woods, the forests, the hills and the vastnesses of seas!”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“My nates offer everlastingly the lugubrious spectacle of tumescence; no one can claim (and how many have drawn near!) that he has seen them in a state of normal quiescence, not even the shoe shine boy who attacked me with a knife during a moment of delirium. Ungrateful wretch!”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“I have always felt an infamous weakness for the pale youth of the college student and the sickly children of the factories!”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“that feeling of wonderful stupefaction from which one generally seeks to protect those who pass their time reading books or magazines, I have made every effort to produce.”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“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.”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
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