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Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.

Isidore Ducasse Lautréamont, Comte de

Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), French author, poet. Poems, pt. 1 (1870).

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