What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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