A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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