What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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