As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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