Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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