Lautreamont Maldoror Quotes & Sayings

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. — Walt Whitman

I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done. — Comte De Lautreamont

All these jobs that seemed incidental and almost playful, on the borders of my real life, were going to move front and center. — Alice Munro

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe. — Remy De Gourmont

I just saw myself as a novelist. — Stephen King

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is ! — Jorge Luis Borges

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work its full title, Les Chants de Maldoror par Le Comte de Lautreamont, seems to contain & imply the constant switches in narrative emphasis-the self as a game (je-jeu) & the author as observer, participant & invisible man-as well as being an inevitable & accurate condensation of, or hint at, the contents. — Alexis Lykiard