I could never throw Love out of the window.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue life is elsewhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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