Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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