It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIs it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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