Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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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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True life is elsewhere.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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