But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue life is elsewhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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