Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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