True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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 Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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