The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDGenius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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