I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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