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 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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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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