I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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