You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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