Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYet 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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