Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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