But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd 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.
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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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