What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI shed more tears than God could ever have required.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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