Morality is the weakness of the mind.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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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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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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