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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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