I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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 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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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