The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue life is elsewhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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 for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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