In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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