I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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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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