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.
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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True life is elsewhere.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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