Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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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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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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