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Quote

• « Arithmétique ! Algèbre ! Géometrie ! Trinité grandiose ! Triangle lumineux ! Celui qui ne vous a pas connues est un insensé ! »

— Lautréamont, Les chants de Maldoror

Translation: "Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!"

• "Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It closely grasps an author's sentence, uses his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with a right one."

• "Poetry must be made by all and not by one."

External links

• Comte de Lautréamont — Les Chants de Maldoror (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/lautreamont/laut_mal.html) (French)
• Maldoror: Le Site (http://www.maldoror.org/) (French)