As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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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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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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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 thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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