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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce which everyone has to perform.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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