A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIn the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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