My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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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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