I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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