I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce we are all forced to endure.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Yet 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.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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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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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 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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True life is elsewhere.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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