I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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 we are all forced to endure.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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