As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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.
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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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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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