I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOne evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The 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.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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