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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDCome from forever, and you will go everywhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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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