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“Qu'on le prenne de la façon qu'on veut, il faut bien y réfléchir, de nos jours, avant de prendre le métier de poète, car on ne compte plus que bien peu de fous, et il y a une telle pléthore d'esprits raisonnables qu'ils peuvent à eux seuls investir toutes les disciplines, y compris celle de la poésie.”
― The Nightwatches of Bonaventura
― The Nightwatches of Bonaventura
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“He dreams he is happy; that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud of another sphere peopled by beings of the same kind as himself. Alas! May his illusion last till dawn’s awakening! He dreams the flowers dance round him in a ring like immense demented garlands, and impregnate him with their balmy perfumes while he sings a hymn of love, locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being. But it is merely twilight mist he embraces, and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined. Awaken not, hermaphrodite. Do not wake yet, I beg you. Why will you not believe me? Sleep … sleep forever. May your breast heave while pursuing the chimerical hope of happiness — that I allow you; but do not open your eyes. Ah! do not open your eyes.”
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
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