Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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