Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Once, 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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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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 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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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