Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue life is elsewhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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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?
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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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