The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTo 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?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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