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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.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I could never throw Love out of the window.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud True life is elsewhere.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud 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?
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud
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Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.
Dr. DreDr. Dre Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
Hans KungHans Kung The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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