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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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