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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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