I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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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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