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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOnce, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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