Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
Isidore Ducasse LautreamontTaste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.
Isidore Ducasse LautreamontMelancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont