Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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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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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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