But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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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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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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