But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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