A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDNow I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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