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 RIMBAUDOnce, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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