I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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 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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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