Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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