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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYou feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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