I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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