I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIn the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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