True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Faith assuages, guides, restores.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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