I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIn the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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 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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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