It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYou feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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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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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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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