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 RIMBAUDCome from forever, and you will go everywhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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