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 RIMBAUDOne evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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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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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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