Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYet 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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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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