Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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 is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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