Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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