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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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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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True life is elsewhere.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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