Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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