I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDNow I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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