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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut the problem is to make the soul into a monster
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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