Morality is the weakness of the mind.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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