In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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