Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is 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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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