A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce which everyone has to perform.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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