Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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 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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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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True life is elsewhere.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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