Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMorality is the weakness of the mind.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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True life is elsewhere.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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